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1 gen 1993 · To the White Sea contains one of the most uncompromising narratives and most unilaterally driven protagonists every committed to paper. Muldrow, a WWII gunner, shot down over Tokyo, does whatever is necessary to survive; he is a man apart, thrown into a foreign land, with a different language, culture, and ideology.
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- James Dickey
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It is a sorry little worm's view of the off-beat of adult pressure, of contemporary strictures and conformity, of sentiment…. A strict report, worthy of sympathy. Share your opinion of this book. Dickey doesn't write many novels—three in 23 years—but he makes every one count. And when he's in peak form, as he is here, he makes every word ...
- Kirkus Reviews
A number of themes — war, violence, nature, sacrifice, and boundaries — are woven together in the overriding theme of the book, Muldrow's quest. His trip from a sewer pipe in Tokyo to a blood-and-feathered last stand on Hokkaido constitutes not only the framework for the book but a major theme, as Muldrow, in a long tradition of heroes from Odysseus to Don Quixote, must overcome obstacles ...
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In his third and latest novel, "To the White Sea," James Dickey tries to reverse the Nietzschean process and convert a civilized animal back into a beast of prey. Muldrow, Mr. Dickey's first-person-singular narrator, is the tail gunner of a B-29 that goes on a bombing run over Tokyo in March 1945. Predictably enough, Muldrow's plane is shot ...
