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Book Synopsis''Uncannily brilliant a book to be swallowed whole'' EVIE WYLDExcellent a profound portrait of a life dislocated by war and violence' THE TIMESBefore there was Jaws, there was QUINTYou 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 USS Indianapolis, only to meet his maker in the maw of a Great White at the end of JAWS. So much more than a fisherman a survivor, a fighter, a man who has left three wives in his wake.In this vivid and utterly compelling masterpiece, Robert Lautner reimagines the life of a truly iconic character.If Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea was doused in whiskey and strained through the gills of a tiger shark, it would not sound dissimilar one of this year's literary miracles'' IRISH INDEPENDENTThrilling, brutal, poetic, literary and irresistible, one of the 21st century's first great 20th-century American novels'' LOUISA YOUNG
Trade Review'QUINT is more than an uncannily brilliant impersonation of voice, it's a story that feels like it was there from the start. This is a book to be swallowed whole' EVIE WYLD
‘Excellent… a profound portrait of a life dislocated by war and violence’ THE TIMES
'QUINT brilliantly deconstructs a savage archetype that is scarce in today’s sanitised world… if Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea was doused in whiskey and strained through the gills of a tiger shark, it would not sound dissimilar… one of this year’s literary miracles' IRISH INDEPENDENT
'An act of literary ventriloquism… uncanny… one of the most surprising literary miracles I’ve come across in a long time' Hilary White, RTÉ
