The Return of Philo T. McGiffin (Bluejacket Books)

Poyer, David C

ISBN 10: 1557506892 / ISBN 13: 9781557506894

Verlag: Naval Institute Press (edition Reprint), 1997

The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1557506892-7-1

Inhaltsangabe:

In this comic and irreverent novel, author and naval officer David Poyer--famous for such bestsellers as The Med, The Gulf, The Circle, and The Passage—brilliantly re-creates the hothouse world of the U.S. Naval Academy. When the book was first published in 1983 Roger Staubach, class of 1965, wrote, ""Anyone who has attended a service academy will recognize Philo T. McGiffin and his classmates. However, anyone who has ever had a dream or a goal will feel a special kinship with Philo. This is a book worth reading.""

Poyer's Philo, burdened with the name of Annapolis's legendary prankster of the class of 1882, attracts attention from the day he reports for Plebe Summer, and the upperclassmen soon make his life a living hell. Stoop-shouldered and meek, he seems an unlikely candidate to carry on the tradition of the original Philo, whose outrageous escapades had served as a symbol of subversive individualism to generations of midshipmen. At first Philo nearly buckles under from the strain, but gradually ""The Mouse"" learns to roar and ultimately to triumph in the grand style of his predecessor. Funny, touching, and enormously realistic, this madcap novel will bring back to everyone what it was like to be 17—and in deep trouble.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: David Poyer is an American author and retired naval officer. He was born in DuBois, Pennsylvania in 1949. Poyer graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1971. He wrote as an active duty naval officer and a naval reserve captain, his service included duty in the Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific, Caribbean, and Persian Gulf area. He retired from the navy in 2001. Poyer has published almost 30 novels, some of which are required reading at Annapolis, and he is called ""the most popular living author of American sea fiction"". Although best known for his naval fiction, in the 1980s, Poyer also wrote alternative history, and science fiction under the pseudonym David Andreissen. He has also published short fiction and nonfiction in numerous magazines.

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Titel: The Return of Philo T. McGiffin (Bluejacket ...
Verlag: Naval Institute Press (edition Reprint)
Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Fair
Auflage: Reprint.