Sebastian Junger's 1997 book, The Perfect Storm, catapulted the first-time author to the sort of celebrity for which most writers hunger their entire lives. His book about a sea tragedy rode the waves...
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[In the following review, Ellis lauds Junger's The Perfect Storm as "a wild ride that brilliantly captures the awesome power of the raging sea and the often futile attempts of humans to ...
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[In the following review, Lehmann-Haupt praises Junger for "nicely pac[ing] his narrative" in The Perfect Storm.]
The title of Sebastian Junger's powerful book, The Perfect Sto...
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[In the following review, Bailey asserts that Junger "man-ages with considerable reporting skill to conjure up [the crew's] last hours," but complains that "Not all of Jung...
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[In the following review, Sutherland calls Junger's The Perfect Storm "a fine and moving book, which deserves to succeed."]
Sebastian Junger's publishers describe him as...
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[In the following review, De Haven asserts that Junger's A Perfect Storm is "[f]erociously dramatic and vividly written."]
Who'd have figured that bad weather—rea...
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The Perfect Storm
All collapsed, and the great shroud
Of the sea rolled on as it had
Five thousand years ago.
-Herman Melville, Moby Dick
The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger, is a novel about ...
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Teaching The Perfect Storm
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The Perfect Storm Lesson Plans contain 161 pages of teaching material, including:
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