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Collection: 7-day Books
Call Number: F
Author: Helprin, Mark
Title: The oceans and the stars
Remainder of title: a sea story, a war story, a love story : the seven battles and mutiny of Athena, Patrol Coastal Ship 15 /
Summary, etc. note: "Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times, best-selling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, returns with a fast-paced, beautifully written novel about the majesty of the sea; a life dedicated to duty, honor, and country; and the gift of falling in love. A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined always to do what's right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the President of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line's only prototype-Athena, Patrol Coastal 15-with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the new assignment in stride, and while supervising Athena's fitting out in New Orleans, encounters a brilliant lawyer, Katy Farrar, with whom he falls in last-chance love. Soon thereafter, he is deployed on a mission that subjects his integrity, morality, and skill to the ultimate test, and ensures that Athena will live forever in the annals of the Navy. As in the Odyssey, Katy is the force that keeps him alive and the beacon that lights the way home through seven battles, mutiny, and court martial. In classic literary form, an enthralling new novel that extolls the virtues of living by the laws of conscience, decency, and sacrifice, The Oceans and the Stars is nothing short of a masterpiece"--

International Standard Book Number: 9781419769085
: (hardcover)
: (ebook)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9798887070766
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Classification number: PS3558.E4775
Item number: O27 2023
Edition number: 23/eng/20231103
Classification number: 813/.54
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Mark Helprin.
Place of publication: New York, NY
Name of publisher: Abrams
Date of publication: 2023
: New York :
: The Overlook Press,
: 2023.
Extent: xiii, 493 pages ;
Dimensions: 24 cm
: rdacontent
: text
: txt
: rdamedia
: unmediated
: n
: rdacarrier
: volume
: nc
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: Donation
Purchase price: 30.00
Subject: Duty
Subject: Honor
Subject: Love
Source of term: lcgft
Genre/form data or focus term: Novels.
: acquire
: 1 shelf copy
: policy default
: xn18 2023-10-26 1 copy rec'd., to USPRLL
: xd06 2023-04-05
: xk06 2023-11-02 to copycat
: xk06 2023-11-03 to CMD
: xk06 2023-11-03

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