{"product_id":"the-sailor-from-gibraltar-paperback","title":"The Sailor from Gibraltar - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarguerite Duras\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBarbara Bray\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A haunting tale of strange and random passion.\"-New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisaffected, bored with his career at the French Colonial Ministry (where he has copied out birth and death certificates for eight years), and disgusted by a mistress whose vapid optimism arouses his most violent misogyny, the narrator of The Sailor from Gibraltar finds himself at the point of complete breakdown while vacationing in Florence. After leaving his mistress and the Ministry behind forever, he joins the crew of The Gibraltar, a yacht captained by Anna, a beautiful American in perpetual search of her sometime lover, a young man known only as the \"Sailor from Gibraltar.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1952, this early novel of Duras's-which was made into a film in 1967-shows those preoccupations which have so deeply concerned her in her later novels and film scripts: loneliness, boredom, the inevitability and intangibility of love. The lambent poetry of the book, and the limning of a woman's mind, her love and sense of the inevitability of that love are singularly Marguerite Duras.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarguerite Duras\u003c\/b\u003e wrote dozens of plays, film scripts, and novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Ravishing of Lol Stein\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sea Wall\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHiroshima, Mon Amour\u003c\/i\u003e. She's most well known for \u003ci\u003eThe Lover\u003c\/i\u003e which received the Goncourt prize in 1984 and was made into a film in 1992.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Bray\u003c\/b\u003e translated several works by Marguerite Duras, including \u003ci\u003eThe Malady of Death\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lover\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe War.\u003c\/i\u003e In addition, she has translated Jean Genet, Ismail Kadare, and Tahar Ben Jelloun, and has received the French-American Foundation Translation Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 276\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 8.54 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47398076383410,"sku":"9781934824047","price":13.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/IkKQD-BD3F9781934824047.webp?v=1783366999","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-sailor-from-gibraltar-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}