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Ship of Fools

Paperback • 1984 • English

Ship of Fools

By Katherine Anne Porter

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About the book

The classic bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize winner dramatizes the rise of totalitarianism in the 1930s in a sweeping story of a transatlantic cruise featuring a cast of unforgettable characters, The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Germany. Passengers include a Spanish noblewoman, a drunken German lawyer, an American divorcee, a pair of Mexican Catholic priests. This ship of fools is a crucible of intense experience, out of which everyone emerges fore...Show more

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ISBN

9780316713900

Publisher

Back Bay Books

Published year

1984

Language

English

Original title

Ship of Fools

Format

Paperback

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