well written sailing,coming of age novel

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	• The Voyage Philip Caputo Knopf, 1999 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 37 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Very Satisfied

I was very happy with the condition of the book and all of the terms of sale. Nice Work!

joe

Flawed but fun read

I have to agree with the reviewers that are annoyed by the complicated present day naration at the beginning and end. I most enjoyed the adventure on the seas part, but didn't think the naration integrated well into the story. I was disappointed that it turns into just another disfunctional family saga. As a novice sailor I didn't notice the sailing term errors noted by others.

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Great device for telling an old story

This is a fun read, all the way around. The author has developed a device for filling in the blanks of an old story of three boys (finally 4) on a fascinating trip from Maine down to Key West, and ultimately Cuba. A modern day woman is looking back at her family history, wondering why the boys' father sent them off on this voyage. She admits from the beginning that she must use her imagination to tell what she has discovered, and that helps fill out the story. Her research of old family records turns up clues as to why the "father" sent the boys away, and her conclusions are logical, and provide a great ending to the book. Ninety-nine percent of us don't know a jib from a mainsheet, and minor errors in sailing technology don't bother a bit. It's a great read, all the way, and the beginning and ending narration glues it all together.

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well written sailing,coming of age novel

Caputo has written a turn of the century (last) adventure Novel.

ASTOUNDING STORY with an AMAZING twist

The Voyage is an incredible story of three teenage sons sent off by their father on a journey aboard their boat Double Eagle. The Voyage is an astounding tale about life in the early twentieth century, and also an amazing twist awaits the reader in the end. I was enraptured with the author's skill to weave an incredible story. The secrets they discover are told through Sybil the great grand daughter of their father as she discovers what really happened along their journey. All in all The Voyage is easily one of the best books I have read, and should delight you as well.

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On a June morning in the century's infancy, Cyrus Braithwaite -- without explanation -- orders his three teenage sons to sail from their Maine home and not return until September. The three boys and a friend board the Braithwaites' forty-six-foot schooner and begin a perilous journey down the East Coast, bound for the Florida Keys. A storm abruptly ends their passage, leaving them stranded in Cuba, but when they telegraph their father for help, he does not respond. After their ordeal is over, no one in the family ever again mentions the voyage.

Now, almost a century later, Cyrus's great-granddaughter Sybil is determined to know the hidden heart of the story: Why did Cyrus send his sons to sea? Why was their mother in a Boston hospital? What role was played in the drama by Lockwood Braithwaite, the enigmatic child of Cyrus's first marriage? Sybil's discoveries will change the way she thinks about herself, her family, and the America whose ideals the Braithwaites once embodied.

The author of A Rumor of War -- acclaimed as one of the great books about Vietnam -- here gives us a rich and gripping tale of adventure, courage, and the persisting effects of long-held secrets. The Voyage is a powerful novel about a family whose ways and deeds were once a template for the nation.

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