num_pages: 155
description: Edmund Carr is at sea in more ways than one. An eminent journalist and self-made man, he has recently discovered that he has only a short time to live. Leaving his job on a Fleet Street paper, he takes a passage on a cruise ship where he knows that Laura, a beautiful and intelligent widow whom he secretly admires, will be a fellow passenger. Exhilarated by the distant vista of exotic islands never to be visited and his conversations with Laura, Edmund finds himself rethinking all his values.A voyage on many levels, those long purposeless days at sea find Edumnd relinquishing the past as he discovers the joys and the pain of a love he is simultaneously determined to conceal.
language: German
title: Weg ohne Weiser
titlecomplete: Weg ohne Weiser
genres: Classics, British Literature, Travel, Modern Classics, Novella, Romance, Literature, Death, Fiction
ratings_count: 383
publisher: Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt