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...BOAT by LOTHAR-GÜNTHER BUCHHEIM 463 pages. Knopf...
Literary Gimbals. Lothar-Günther Buchheim served on U-boats as a documentary journalist working for the Nazi government. Now the author resurrects that darkly romantic image in a novel that two years ago was a controversial bestseller in Germany. Whatever Buchheim's intention, his commander, a dour 30-year-old invariably referred to as the Old Man, comes off as the foreman of a band of master plumbers who seem to spend most of their time wrapped around greasy tubing talking about their alley-cat sex lives...
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