Passages of Herman Melville.
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781847679802 (1847679803)
Publish date: January 1st 2012
Publisher: Canongate Books
Edition language: English
An enjoyable, mostly sympathetic (fictional) narrative of Melville's life. This is no biography, nor does it attempt to be, but rather an attempt to blow life into a character most of us know only as a name on a book's cover (if even that). To Parini's credit, he brought us a Herman Melville who was...