The Sailor from Gibraltar by Marguerite Duras (Hardcover First Edition)

Published by Grove Press 1966
Sewn-bound hardcover
First Edition
318 pages
9x5.5 inches

Near Fine book in Very Good dust jacket. Comes in removable protective Brodart mylar cover.

"A haunting tale of strange and random passion."—New York Times

Disaffected, bored with his career at the French Colonial Ministry (where he has copied out birth and death certificates for eight years), and disgusted by a mistress whose vapid optimism arouses his most violent misogyny, the narrator of The Sailor from Gibraltar finds himself at the point of complete breakdown while vacationing in Florence. After leaving his mistress and the Ministry behind forever, he joins the crew of The Gibraltar, a yacht captained by Anna, a beautiful American in perpetual search of her sometime lover, a young man known only as the "Sailor from Gibraltar." The source for Tony Richardson’s film from 1967.