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Length7h 42m
About this audiobook
The world of the U.S.S. Nellie Crocker was a world of men, both brothers and antagonists. The nominal cargo aboard the ship was the goods of war being transported to battle, but Lonnie Coleman, a master of the taut narrative, shows us this vessel burdened also with the freight of human vanity.
This is the story of two men fighting for control of the ship in order to prove their authority. Captain Winters’ vanity is that he insists on being the martinet ruler of his ship in order to be shown a respect he knows he is unable to earn. Far subtler is Wesley Mason’s vanity: as first lieutenant, he runs the ship with a loving competence that celebrates the virtue of his accomplishment rather than the job he accomplishes. The captain and his first lieutenant’s contest for power is personal, bitter, and one-sided. The captain holds all the cards but one.
Captain Winters cannot run his ship without Mason, but with Mason daily demonstrating his ability, Winters feels his own egotistical stature diminished. The captain is incapable of learning; Mason isn’t.
He learns through his intimacy with the crew, particularly young Busby with a chip on his shoulder against the world and a pawn of the captain’s to use against Mason, that if Winters forfeited love in order to be respected, he, Mason, has forfeited respect in order to be loved by his men. Mason’s growing awareness of his mistake is the philosophical theme worked out under the exciting surface of fast naval action.
Lonnie Coleman has developed a fast and smooth narrative pace for his wonderfully tight novels of men more at war with themselves than with any declared enemy. But this pace is deceptively simple. In The Golden Vanity and the ship, the U.S.S. Nellie Crocker, he has devised a complex metaphor to express the vanities of wonderfully portrayed voyagers on a long sea journey to war and discovery.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction, Action and Adventure
Length7 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 20, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
5PART THREE
2Dedication
6PART FOUR
3PART ONE
7PART FIVE
4PART TWO
8Books by Lonnie Coleman published by Classica Libris (digital editions)
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