A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time
Joel White's Last Boat
by Douglas Whynott
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9780385488129,
Hardcover,
Bantam Dell Pub Group,
1999
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9780671785260,
Paperback,
Washington Square Pr,
2000
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Publisher Notes
When one of the world's great boat builders is diagnosed with cancer, he begins working on his last boat in the Brooklin Boat Yard, in a profound and moving study of the human condition. Reprint.
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"Whynott spent a lot of time with White in the months preceding the boat maker's death, and he gathered much good material on life growing up with E.B. and Katharine White (Whynott tries not to make it sound like an idyll, but it comes across as pretty sweet, and it must have been fun to be the test pilot for Stuart Little), as well as an honest taste of a day's measured rhythms in the boatyard. Whynott lovingly details the work being done, and the characters doing the work, on new boats and boats brought in for repair to the boatyard, now run by White's son Steve...."
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