Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 1930s America for the promise of glory at the heart of Hitler's Berlin. Stroke by stroke, a remarkable young man strives to regain his shattered self-regard, to dare again to trust in others - and to find his way back home. Told against the backdrop of the Great Depression, Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat is narrative non-fiction of the first order; a personal story full of lyricism and unexpected beauty that rises above the grand sweep of history, and captures instead the purest essence of what it means to be alive.

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Mediatyp: Bok
Bandtyp: Pocket
Författare: Daniel James Brown
Förlag: Pan Macmillan
Språk: Engelska
Omfång: 404 sidor
Mått (bxhxd): 130x198x25 mm
Vikt: 287 gram
Illustrerad: Nej

Streckkod: 9781447210986
SKU: 804978