Word: flotsam
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Judith Hearne is an old maid whose soul drifts like flotsam on a landlocked sea of Irish malice. It is the impressive feat of First Novelist Brian Moore, an Irish-born Montreal newspaperman, to compel the reader to follow the course of this human driftwood to its last miserable beach. Author Moore believes with G. K. Chesterton of his native city that...
Patterson's story, says Sportswriter Paul O'Neil, "illustrates the fact that professional boxing, for all its seamy background . . . and its pitiful human flotsam, can be a power for good in shaping the character of young males...
Still, Captain Dean and a handful of his men refuse to quit. They pull some of the flotsam from the sea and make a pathetic shelter. They find that ice ripped from boulders will do for water, that seaweed and mussels will keep a spark of life in bodies so frozen that toes fall off without giving pain. And when Chips, the ship's carpenter, dies, they find that his flesh can be eaten with an easy conscience, once they have decided to call it beef...
...most successful is The Crater (see cut), dominated by lava-black swirls in which prehistoric reptiles, ghostly riders and a whole flotsam of humanity are discovered like fossil imprints in a violently sheared rock...
Tossed about the Channel like flotsam, Lord Jim's crew found little to occupy themselves but an occasional tune on the guitar by Bertie de Castelbajac and-of course-an occasional bottle of wine...