| Dan Yack Revised Edition Contributor(s): Cendrars, Blaise (Author), Brown, Alan (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0720611571 ISBN-13: 9780720611571 Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.02" W x 7.32" (0.31 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Centering on eccentric English millionaire shipowner, notorious hell-raiser, and the envy of all St Petersburg, Dan Yack, this strange travel yarn begins with the protagonist finding out that he is no longer wanted by his lover, Hedwiga. Rejection letter in hand, he eventually wanders into a nightclub to impulsively invite a handful of artists to accompany him on a world voyage via the Antarctic. As their journey progresses, the weather worsens and they enter pack-ice. Impatient, Dan orders the crew to land him and his three companions while they wait for a clear passage. They have enough provisions for a long, dark polar winter, but things do not run smoothly. The musician destroys their watches, the poet drifts off into serious daydreams, and the sculptor starts making statues of Dan Yack in ice. And Dan himself is worried--about time, about breaking his monocle, and about having no-one to love. But when the sun finally returns after the polar winter, no one could predict the surreal disaster that is about to unfold--a scenario involving a plum pudding, whales, women, and World War I. |