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The author is a professor I once had and esteemed highly: a Shakespeare scholar who had quite a life before he entered the academic world at Yale and at Princeton. He's written several scholarly books and lately more reflective wider ranging books, like "The Death of Literature" and "In Plato's Cave," which are autobiographical in focus. Here he tells about his youth and his service in the Navy during WW2. It's a pretty good story about his various adventures at sea in the Pacific Theater. He served on an aircraft carrier during some of the major events of the War, and he describes some harrowing incidents. It's interesting, by the way, to see that he was friends with Richard Boone who would go on to become an actor and play "Paladin" on TV. Kernan can write very well, clearly, concisely, and with a rhythm that moves you right along the narrative train. Don't think he writes like a stuffy scholar if you have in mind a brier patch of convoluted syntax, polysyllabic words, turgid prose (like this sentence). No, Kernan writes for Everyman plainly and simply, but with remarkable grace and deftness. I recommend this book for those interested in various phases of WW2, action with the US Navy during that War, and, of course, those who met Kernan years later and can appreciate his autobiographic memories.Read full review
Could NOT put it down! Clearly written and plainly told by a sailor who was THERE in the Pacific!!!
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Great book and well written
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