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The Closed Harbour (Oneworld Classics)

The Closed Harbour (Oneworld Classics)

by JamesHanley (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

Following an incident at sea, fifty-year-old Captain Eugene Marius finds himself without employment or purpose in Marseille, paying fruitless daily visits to the port's shipping offices. Consumed by guilt, spurned by his family and faced with the futility of life away from the waters, Marius seeks solace in alcohol and the arms of a prostitute, but is unable to keep his mental and physical deterioration at bay. Remarkable in its gritty descriptions of Marseille and the psychological portrait of its protagonist, The Closed Harbour is a poignant, sharply written examination of the maritime profession and life as an outcast.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Oneworld Classics Ltd
Published: 01 Oct 2009
ISBN 10: 1847491340
ISBN 13: 9781847491343

Media Reviews
'Neglected Genius' is accepted merely as the category to which Hanley belongs. . . . The geniuses who are neglected are usually the geniuses who disturb, and we do not like to be disturbed. Anthony Burgess on James Hanley
Author Bio
Born in Liverpool to Irish immigrants, James Hanley left school at an early age to become a sailor. His experiences at sea informed many of his works. Unfairly neglected during his lifetime, only recently has this original, uncompromising novelist started to be reappraised as one of the finest English writers of the twentieth century.