- Sailors, Alaska in fiction, Storms, Fiction in English
A gripping tale of men struggling against nature and themselves, Williwaw was Gore Vidal's first novel, written at nineteen when he was first mate of the U.S. Army freight supply ship stationed in the Aleutian Islands.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and intimate.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Gore Vidal
- First published
- 1946
- Pages
- 184
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Panther, University Of Chicago Press
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780349105697
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Gore Vidal (full name: Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr.) was a renowned American author.
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