The Year is 1950. In the North Atlantic west of Ireland the destinies of two ships fuse. One, an English tramp, breaks apart in a winter storm. Five survivors cling to the wreckage. Chance puts the novel's central character--an officer of a nearby liner--at the helm of a boat that must battle its way through the mountainous waves in a desperate attempt to reach the castaways. In this evocation of the life of the sea, author Alan Littell has created a world of isolation, frailty and endurance whose overarching theme is the test of courage.

Courage

Literature & Fiction

Littell, Alan

United States

Thomas Dunne Books

Author and journalist Alan Littell has worked as a merchant mariner and as a newspaper reporter and editor in Boston and Paris. Best known as a nationally distributed travel writer-his credits include The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and Travel &amp; Leisure Magazine-he is author of a novel of the sea, "Courage," published in 2007 by St. Martin's Press. Littell's latest book, "Winter Passage," is a selection of his essays, memoirs and travel articles written over the past 60 years for newspapers and magazines in this country and overseas. Sofka Zinovieff, author of "Putney," had this to say of the new book: "A wonderful lifetime of world travel is collected in this series of vividly personal yet clear-eyed articles." Pamela Petro, author of "Travels in an Old Tongue," praised "Winter Passage" as "the work of a writer as much at home on the slush-covered foredeck of a working ship as he is savoring Chateau d'Yquem 1945." And Gail Hosking, author of the memoir "Snake's Daughter," called Littell's book "a beautiful collection of musings and reflections from a writer of considerable passion for the world at large."

Winter Passage: Essays, Memoirs, Journeys

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Blurb

The year was 1960. The place, Paris. They met by chance on the street in front of the small hotel where they both had taken lodging-the author, an American newspaperman; and a pretty girl with light brown hair cropped short, unruly. Her voice was low pitched, her accent unmistakably English but modulated, restrained, an echo of class, though not of the working class. In profile the sharp line of her jaw tipped upward and her forehead, high and straight, offered a classical image of startling beauty and febrile intensity.Her name was Caroline. For whatever reasons, or for no particular reason at all unless escape from unpleasantness and tedium was a reason, she and the author had drifted into this ancient city. Paris then was magic. Paris was that almost mythical idyll of youth and freedom, and Paris had seduced and bewitched them.Thus begins Alan Littell's memoir of the early years of the girl he one day would marry, from her birth as a British colonial in Cairo in 1939 to their life together in the Europe, England and America of the 1960s.

Caroline: A Memoir

Travel

Jericho Hill Publishing

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