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| Original Title: | Sailor Twain: Or: The Mermaid in the Hudson |
| ISBN: | 1596436360 (ISBN13: 9781596436367) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Hudson River, New York,1887(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Nominee for Best Graphic Album—Reprint (2013) |
Mark Siegel
Hardcover | Pages: 399 pages Rating: 3.71 | 3549 Users | 541 Reviews
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| Title | : | Sailor Twain: Or: The Mermaid in the Hudson |
| Author | : | Mark Siegel |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 399 pages |
| Published | : | October 2nd 2012 by First Second (first published September 27th 2011) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Fantasy. Comics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Adult |
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One hundred years ago. On the foggy Hudson River, a riverboat captain rescues an injured mermaid from the waters of the busiest port in the United States. A wildly popular—and notoriously reclusive—author makes a public debut. A French nobleman seeks a remedy for a curse. As three lives twine together and race to an unexpected collision, the mystery of the Mermaid of the Hudson deepens. A mysterious and beguiling love story with elements of Poe, Twain, Hemingway, and Greek mythology, drawn in moody black-and-white charcoal, Sailor Twain is a study in romance, atmosphere, and suspense.Rating Of Books Sailor Twain: Or: The Mermaid in the Hudson
Ratings: 3.71 From 3549 Users | 541 ReviewsNotice Of Books Sailor Twain: Or: The Mermaid in the Hudson
This was a joy to read. I loved that so much of it took place around where I live. There will be no spoilers coming from me. The artwork is all charcoal or pencil which fits in well with steamboats and sooty New York in the mid-1800's. There is also a little sex and nudity so don't hand this to some kid before you read it yourself. As a big fairy tales and legends fan I enjoyed the use of both as story elements. It must have been a lot of fun doing research on this book. I recommend this bookTwain is a riverboat captain who thinks that he has the difference between right and wrong fairly well figured out. He's faithful to his sick wife while at sea and tries to keep a reputable ship, with a hard-working crew. Therefore it's not such a big surprise that he's at odds with Lafayette, a French nobleman who is a passenger on his ship. He is obsessed with having 'seven loves' at the same time. It may not be for the reasons Twain thinks though - Lafayette has been afflicted by a mermaid's
4.5 starsThis was a really fun graphic novel I picked up in the library without knowing anything about it (which is odd for me as I normally only read graphic novels that are quite popular or from publishers that Ive requested as Im not a huge GN reader).This is about a Captain called Captain Twain who sails on a boat on the Hudson River in the 1800s. Theres a mystery about the disappearance of the original owner of the boar, and his brother is now running it but seems more interested in bedding
This is only the second authentic graphic novel I have read and this time I understand the appeal of the genre. I liked Sailor Twain for the story itself, the artwork, the feel of the book, all the lovely details that went into this volume. This was the first time I could see how drawings add extra dimensions to the narration, sometimes become the narration. I want to go back to the beginning and start all over again, just for the fun of looking for details I may have missed!But meanwhile, what
I almost never read other GR reviews before I review a book, but here I did because I was (initially and still am) confused. The blurbs on the back of the book are written by a range of people: john Irving (who talks about its "erotically charged" images, which is true), Pete Hamill who says this book singlehandedly changes the nature of the novel and puts graphic novels on a new plane...Rachel Maddow found it "addicting"...and maybe thus it becomes a New York Times bestseller... an achievement
Disclaimer: I got a ARC via Netgalley.Sailor Twain is a novel.Not just a graphic novel, but a novel.I know, we tend to only refer to graphic novels that people tend to apply that term to are Maus and Watchmen.But this is a novel.Sailor Twain tells the story of a steamboat on the Hudson River; in particular it is concerned with the boats captain, a Captain Twain. Twain works for a Frenchman, who has been missing, and, therefore, at the moments takes orders from the mans brother, Lafayette. There
I've never read a graphic novel before. It will probably be a while before I read one again. However, if this author writes another, I may just have to make an exception. I've picked up graphic novels in bookstores and have been uninterested for one reason or another. Most of them seem to be written for teenagers or gamers. I read a review about this one, reserved it at the library, then promptly forgot about it until it showed up. By that time I had forgotten that it was a graphic novel! The
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