- No Signposts in the Sea by Vita Sackville-West (1961)
No Signposts in the Sea is a beautifully and skillfully written story which probes deeply into human frailties, into the nature of adult love, and into the contradictions of the spirit and the flesh
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NO SIGNPOSTS IN THE SEA by V Sackville-West ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 14, 1961 A short, philosophical novel built around some of the problems raised by the known imminence of his death, as Edmund Carr, faced with the fact of a maximum of four months of life, chooses to spend them on a tropical cruise on which Laura Drysdale has booked passage
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It may be by daylight, looking at the sea, rippled with little white ponies（metaphor暗喻）, or with no ripples at all but only the lazy satin of blue, marbled at the edge where the passage of our ship has disturbed it Or it may be at night, when the sky surely seems blacker than ever at home and the stars more golden
- No Signposts in the Sea by Vita Sackville-West | Goodreads
A voyage on many levels, those long purposeless days at sea find Edmund relinquishing the past as he discovers the joys and the pain of a love he is simultaneously determined to conceal
- Vita Sackville-West’s No Signposts in the Sea - Kate Macdonald
We could argue over ‘great’, but I contend that No Signposts in the Sea is a novel to hold the reader spell-bound It’s short, narrated through the quiet diary entries of Edmund Carr, who is under a sentence of death that he is keeping private from anyone on the cruise ship on which he is taking his last voyage
- No Signposts in the Sea: Sackville-West, Vita: Amazon. com: Books
Edmund Carr is at sea in more ways than one An eminent journalist and self-made man, he has recently discovered that he has only a short time to live Leaving his job on a Fleet Street paper, he takes a passage on a cruise ship where he knows that Laura, a beautiful and intelligent widow whom he secretly admires, will be a fellow passenger
- Review: No Signposts in the Sea by Vita Sackville-West
In the story, journalist Edmund Carr learns that he has only a short time to live and so leaves his job to take passage on a ship on which he knows that Laura, an intelligent and attractive widow he is secretly infatuated with is also a passenger
- Vita Sackville-West, No Signposts in the Sea - Tredynas Days
Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962), No Signposts in the Sea VMC 1992; first published 1961 Vita Sackville-West gathered much of the material for this novella on some of the sea-cruises she took annually with her husband Harold Nicholson (they married in 1913) for the last six years of her life
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