Publishers Weekly, June 21st, 1993
* TO THE WHITE SEA James Dickey. Houghton Mifflin/ Jaffe, $22.95 (272p) ISBN 0-395-84494-4 To answer the obvious question first, Dickey's third novel is not a new potential blockbuster like Deliverance-- but neither is it an esoterically high-minded, tough read like Alnilam. The book it most brings to mind, oddly, is Robinson Crusoe: there is a similarly forthright first-person narrator, describing a life of utter solitude--with the difference that Dickey's protagonist chooses his solitude, and to break it would be certain death. He is an American flier, shot down over Tokyo the day before t...
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