George Fetherling
Author of The Book of Assassins: A Biographical Dictionary From Ancient Times To The Present
About the Author
George Fetherling is the author of fifty books. A former literary editor at the Toronto Star and a regular columnist and book reviewer, Mr. Fetherling lives in Vancouver, British Columbia
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Douglas George Fetherling
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Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Contributor — 302 copies
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- Fetherling, Douglas George
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Fetherling, Doug - Birthdate
- 1949
- Gender
- male
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- Canada
- Short biography
- Douglas George Fetherling (born 1 Jan 1949) is a Canadian poet, novelist, journalist and essayist.
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- Douglas George Fetherling
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Written with dash, colour, and droll humour, Fetherling’s narrative is peopled by a rich cast of characters, from the Foreign Legionnaires of French Polynesia to the raskol gangs of Papua New Guinea. Most memorable perhaps are the men and women who continue to follow the millennia-old life of the sea. This is the world of Ordinaries and Able-Bodied Seamen, but also of hopeful young officer cadets – to say nothing of, in this particular instance, a temperamental cook, a computer genius with a nose-ring, and a young Russian woman who believes herself the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe.
Fetherling captures the reality of life aboard a working cargo ship – the boredom, the seclusion, the differences of nationality and culture that isolation and cramped quarters seem to exaggerate. But he also describes how the routine of loneliness or tranquillity is punctuated by moments of near-panic – shipboard fires, furniture-smashing storms, even a brush with pirates in the Strait of Malacca.
Running Away to Sea is literary travel-writing in the grand old tradition.… (more)