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John Boyne’s novel, Mutiny on the Bounty, immerses the reader in this legendary story of strife and rebellion on the high seas. In 1789, a 14-year-old pickpocket named John Jacob Turnstile is pressed into service as a cabin boy to Captain William Bligh, on the eve of the ship’s journey to the South Seas. Young Turnstile is a marvelous narrator, capturing the spirit and personalities of many crewmembers, most notably Captain Bligh and his foppish (and eventually mutinous) lieutenant Fletcher Christian. The reader is catapulted into the epic journey, complete with stormy weather, roiling waves, and all the perils and indignities that came with 18th-century oceanic ventures.
After a happy sojourn in Tahiti, many sailors decide a return to life at sea is untenable and, rising in mutiny, take over the Bounty. Captain Bligh, as well as our beleaguered narrator, are banished to almost certain death on the open…
Pickpocket John Jacob Turnstile is on his way to be detained at His Majesty's Pleasure when he is offered a lifeline, what seems like a freedom of sorts - the job of personal valet to a departing naval captain. Little does he realise that it is anything but - and by accepting the devil's bargain he will put his life in perilous danger. For the ship is HMS Bounty, his new captain William Bligh and their destination Tahiti.
From the moment the ship leaves port, Turnstile's life is turned upside down, for not only must he put his own demons…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
Charles Portis is revered by an ever-increasing number of readers as a comic genius, best known for his novel True Grit. In Gringos, a cranky American expat named Jimmy Burns occasionally traffics in purloined pre-Columbian artifacts he finds in and around the Yucatán Peninsula. Since this is Charles Portis writing, the story of Jimmy Burn’s Mexican adventures is interrupted by numerous digressions, a slow-moving but always entertaining storyline, and an introduction to characters no less quirky than the man himself.
Any recommendation of Portis's novels can't quite describe the low-key lunacy and understated humor of his work. "Deadpan" might be the best description of the book's tone. On the novel’s opening page, Jimmy notes it's Christmas once again in Yucatán, but so far "there had been no scramble among the hostesses of Merida to see who could get me for Christmas dinner." Readers, prepare yourself for a picaresque…
A truly brilliant, wonderfully bizarre novel by one of our great American novelists, the author of the perennial bestseller True Grit
Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd little details that comprise your average American.
For a time, Jimmy spent his days unearthing pre-Colombian artifacts. Now he makes a living doing small trucking jobs and helping out with the occasional missing person situation―whatever it takes to remain “the very picture of an American idler in Mexico, right down to the grass-green golfing trousers.”
