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First Ship
This is the first in a collection of six sea stories based upon the author's experience working aboard 17 freighters and tankers from 1970 to 1982. Set in 1969-70, this is a chronicle of a young man's flight from Viet Nam draft and potential arrest on unrelated charges. The story starts in Seattle and goes to the coast of Maine, a vegetable oil factory in New Orleans, the red light district of wartime Saigon, and ends up with hitchhiking on Route 66 to get back to Seattle from New Orleans.
90 pages, Paperback
Published June 1, 2013
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January 22, 2024
Books are choppy and repetitive. Not sure why they chose to publish as a collection of short stories. Collectively, it’s a decent look at the merchant marines through the lens of the lowest members of the crew. But should be edited together as a single book.
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