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...Naked Sea. The saga of a tuna clipper: a fish story with some spectacular truth in it (TIME...
Naked Sea.The saga of a tuna clipper: a fish story with some spectacular truth in it (TIME...
...Powell's gaga saga has gathered an odd and diverting cast of characters who make their entrances and exits, as people do in life, with no particular design. In The Acceptance World he shuffles them in all their inconsequence into the Great Depression, or as the British prefer to call it, "The Slump." The early '30s have been both mourned and deplored, but never quite so coldly derided...
This success as a story-teller is, however, only one aspect of the author's technical skill. By presenting the saga in the form of a fairy tale, the author has freed himself to present his own view of the world, untrammeled by popular prejudice and preconception. To create a hero or to pit man against fate in the world of familiar experience is next to impossible, for the modern reader has long taken for granted the scientific proposition that man makes his own history, no matter how far from his hopes it may appear...
...preconceptions are too strong, if the reader cannot make the transfer from the unknown to supernaturalism, from alien cultures to elves and orcs, he finds the entire saga meaningless. The cult which has already surrounded the book testifies, however, to the number of readers who find the system not only credible, but often more realistic than their own perceptions...