The handsome sailor
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Larry Duberstein.
Publisher: Permanent Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Sag Harbor, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Fiction.; Novelists -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A portrait of the 19th century writer, Herman Melville, after he wrote his famous Moby Dick. He burns his manuscripts, has an extra-marital affair and goes to work as a customs inspector in New York. Not until 30 years later does he resume writing to produce Billy Bud just before his death.