GILES COREN,THE TIMESâPuts some of the balls back into serious English fictionâ
You already know the end of his story: now find out where it all began.
Quint: the taciturn and grizzled sea captain who survived the shark-ridden sinking of the only to meet his maker in the maw of a Great White at the end of . So much more than a fisherman â a survivor, a fighter, a man who has left three wives in his wake.USS Indianapolis,JAWS
In this vivid and utterly compelling masterpiece, Robert Lautner reimagines the life of a truly iconic character.
âIf Hemingwayâs was doused in whiskey and strained through the gills of a tiger shark, it would not sound dissimilar⌠one of this yearâs literary miracles'The Old Man and the SeaIRISH INDEPENDENT
âThrilling, brutal, poetic, literary and irresistible, one of the 21st centuryâs first great 20th-century American novels' LOUISA YOUNG
Before there was , there was⌠QUINTJaws