Delilah - Marcus Goodrich - Hardcover

Delilahis a sea story unlike any ever written, although in reading itone isreminded of Ahab's single-minded quest for the great white whale, of Joseph Conrad and his men of the sea, of the struggles of epic myth and the real battles that have become mythic within the imaginations of men. The novel is in all ways extraordi­nary. The story, which occurs on the eve of the first World War, is that of a U.S. Navy destroyer on detached duty in the South Seas and of the men who serve in her. In the tiny world of a de­stroyer in a vast universe of the sea, the officers and men ofDelilahcarry out their orders heroically, according to the code of the fighting man, to patrol their assigned area, to inspect remote islands, to show the flag, to carry out diplomat­ic missions, and to prepare for the impending war. From thebeginning, the men aboardDelilahface severe trials. A voracious eater of coal, she must be fed con­stantly. A typhoon provides a test that all but the hardiest must fail. When the novel was first published in 1941,Sinclair Lewis noted that itwas "more real than reality." TheNew York Timescalled itan "extraordinarily lovely novel of a fighting ship"; and Clifton Fadiman referred to itin theNew Yorkeras a "mature work of imagi­nation on a subject ordinarily left to writers of adventure yarns."Goodrich, Marcus is the author of 'Delilah - Marcus Goodrich - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780809307395 and ISBN 0809307391.