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...SAILOR FROM GIBRALTAR by Marguerite Duras. 318 pages. Grove...
...others who sailed at least some portion of the great clipper way followed by Skipper Chichester on his 226-day voyage. Since the book contains extracts from the best known yarns of such seafaring types as Sir Francis Drake, Joseph Conrad and Richard Henry Dana, stitched together with Old Sailor Chichester's own brief commentary on such dangers as icebergs, scurvy, sea monsters and gales, it is predictably absorbing. Still, it is obviously only a warmup for what Chichester undoubtedly plans as a rousing encore: an account of his own epic voyage...
...less costly and usually less comely than their sisters on white-dominated Tu Do Street near by. The "in" spot in Soulsville is the L. & M. Guest House, a bar-restaurant and record booth run by balding, beer-bellied "Johnny" Hill, 35, a New Orleans Negro and ex-merchant sailor whose menu of "soul food" runs from No. 4 (turnip greens) through No. 8 (barbecued spareribs) to No. 9, "Kansas City Wrinkles," better known as chitlins. In Soulsville, the sustenance is psychological as well. There, no matter how close he may be to white soldiers on the line, the Negro...
...trails after the sailor, she and the stone wall traipse from Greece to Alexandria to dullest Africa, for no other reason, it seems, than to run into an overblown Levantine (Orson Welles) and a flyblown white hunter (Hugh Griffith). In the end the sailor remains unfound. Perhaps, ventures Bannen, this romantic ideal never existed. "But if he didn't," allows Moreau. "we would have had to invent him." Translation: We all need our illusions no matter how false we know they are. After seeing Tony Richardson's most recent flopdoodles-Mademoiselle, The Loved One, and now Sailor-moviegoers...
...literary one. But this first novel by a British prisoner serving a life sentence for murder rises above its origins. The publishers will say nothing about the author, who uses the pen name Zeno (borrowed from the founder of Stoic philosophy), except that at various times he was a sailor, a soldier, a farmer and a timber merchant. More to the point, he was a World War II parachutist with the British 1st Airborne Division, which was trapped and methodically riddled to pieces at the Battle of Arnhem...