Quint

Before there was Jaws, there was... QUINT This powerful and brilliant literary novel takes a character who, through Peter Benchley''s novel and particularly Steven Spielberg''s film, has become etched in our cultural imagination: Quint, the taciturn and grizzled sea captain who survived the shark-ridden sinking of the USS Indianapolis only to meet his end in the maw of a Great White at the end of JAWS. From the very first line, Quint''s voice is fresh, vivid and immediately transfixing. From his early seafaring days, via the life-altering events of 1945 to his arrival on Amity, this is a glorious literary picaresque with echoes of Hemingway.

About the author

ROBERT LAUTNER was born in Middlesex in 1970. Before becoming a writer he owned his own comic-book store, worked as a wine merchant, photographic consultant and recruitment consultant. He now lives on the Pembrokeshire coast in a wooden cabin with his wife and children. He is the author of The Road to Reckoning, which was a Simon Mayo Book Club choice, and The Draughtsman, which was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Quint is his third novel.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Lautner, Lautner Robert
• Publisher: The Borough Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9780008647476
• ISBN: 978-0-00-864747-6
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Historical / General, Fiction: special features, Historical fiction, FICTION / Sea Stories, War & combat fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Sea stories, War, combat and military adventure fiction, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages