The Oceans and the Stars
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Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter’s
Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, presents a fast-paced,
beautifully written novel about the majesty of the sea, a life
dedicated to duty, honor, and country, and the gift of falling in
love. A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen
Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined to always do
what’s right. In defending the development of a new variant of
warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States,
who assigns him to command the doomed line’s only
prototype––Athena, Patrol Coastal 15––with the intent to humiliate
a man who should have been an admiral.Rather than resign,
Rensselaer takes the new assignment in stride, and while
supervising Athena’s fitting out in New Orleans, encounters a
brilliant lawyer, Katy Farrar, with whom he falls in last-chance
love. Soon thereafter, he is deployed on a mission that subjects
his integrity, morality, and skill to the ultimate test, and
ensures that Athena will live forever in the annals of the Navy. As
in the Odyssey, Katy is the force that keeps him alive and the
beacon that lights the way home through seven battles, mutiny, and
court martial.In classic literary form, an enthralling new novel
that extolls the virtues of living by the laws of conscience,
decency, and sacrifice, The Oceans and the Stars is nothing short
of a masterpiece.
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Abrams ,
Mark Helprin
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Abrams,
Mark Helprin
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