Ship of Fools

Ship of Fools

by Katherine Anne Porter
Ship of Fools

Ship of Fools

by Katherine Anne Porter

Paperback(Reissue)

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Overview

The classic bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize winner dramatizes the rise of totalitarianism in the 1930s in a sweeping story of a transatlantic cruise featuring a cast of unforgettable characters,

The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Germany. Passengers include a Spanish noblewoman, a drunken German lawyer, an American divorcee, a pair of Mexican Catholic priests. This ship of fools is a crucible of intense experience, out of which everyone emerges forever changed. Rich in incident, passion, and treachery, the novel explores themes of nationalism, cultural and ethnic pride, and basic human frailty that are as relevant today as they were when the book was first published in 1962.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780316713900
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication date: 05/30/1984
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 512
Sales rank: 189,942
Product dimensions: 5.62(w) x 8.62(h) x 1.38(d)
Age Range: 14 - 18 Years

Table of Contents

Part IEmbarkation: Quand partons-nous vers le bonheur? (Baudelaire)1
Part IIHigh Sea: Kein Haus, Keine Heimat ... (song by Brahms)69
Part IIIThe Harbors: For here have we no continuing city ... (Saint Paul)361

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