The Passages of H.M.: A Novel of Herman Melville
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307386199 (0307386198)
Publish date: November 1st 2011
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 464
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...