A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea

Author(s): David Vann

Biography

Work so that you can keep working. It seemed a proposition that could easily end in suicide. I wanted to escape this. I wanted to free myself from the working world and have time to write. And I wanted adventure. Grendel could never free me, but this boat could. David Vann has loved boats all his life. So when his academic career seems to be stuck in the doldrums, he leaps at the opportunity to start an educational charter business, teaching creative writing workshops aboard a sailboat. But a trip to Turkey sees him dreaming bigger-and before he knows it, he is at the helm of his own ninety-foot boat, running charters along the Turkish coast. And here his troubles begin. Sinking deep into debt, and encountering everything from a lost rudder to freak storms, Vann is on the verge of losing everything-including his life. Part high-seas adventure, part journey of self-discovery, A Mile Down is a gripping and unforgettable story of struggle and redemption by a writer at the top of his game.

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* Extract to be placed in national newspaper on publication * Interviews in major broadsheets in Australia and New Zealand * Interviews on national radio such as Radio National's Life Matters and Radio NZ's Kim Hill * Wide review coverage in broadsheet and tabloid newspapers * Wide review coverage in women's magazines, literary journals and other magazines * Wide review coverage online * Author will be a guest of major writers festivals in Australia in 2014 * Limited number of reading copies available to the trade * Shared advertising in literary and current affairs publications such as ABR, Griffith Review and the Monthly, and on their associated websites * Promotions and giveaways with targeted subscriber groups, including book lovers like CAE and Good Reads * Advertisements in bookseller newsletters and catalogues * Banner advertising on bookseller websites

'David Vann has created a tale of hubris and endurance that is both exciting and beautifully written.' -- Keith Scribner 'A Mile Down would be a cautionary tale for anyone who dreams of the freedom of the high seas-if only it wasn't so damn exciting...' -- Stewart O'Nan, author of Songs for the Missing 'At once memoir, confession, travel book and thriller, David Vann's A Mile Down is so vivid and intense you will dread to see it end...The book is a testimony of passion and courage in deadly storms and scarier calms, of a man wrestling with his ghosts and gifts in the very shadow of paradise.' -- Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek

David Vann is an internationally bestselling author published in nineteen languages. He is the winner of fifteen prizes and his books have appeared on seventy Best Books lists in a dozen countries. He is a professor at the University of Warwick in England and lives in New Zealand half of the year.

General Fields

  • : 9781922182081
  • : The Text Publishing Company
  • : The Text Publishing Company
  • : November 2013
  • : March 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 240
  • : 623.8203
  • : 314
  • : Paperback
  • : David Vann