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The Ordinary Seaman

(1997)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1999 Dublin Literary Award (nominee)
1998 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee)
1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee)

Francisco, a young veteran of the war in Nicaragua, comes to New York with fourteen other men to staff Urua, a wreck of a ship sitting idle on a Brooklyn pier, leaving Francisco and his fellow crew members trapped, unable to find work or return home.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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