The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 15th, 2004
Tone sinks tale of goofy cork boat
By TIM CUPRISIN tcuprisin@journalsentinel.com
Sunday, February 15, 2004
Cork Boat. By John Pollack. Pantheon. 284 pages. $21.
There should be something goofy about a guy who wants to build a boat out of 165,321 corks.
John Pollack uses the word himself as he opens his tale of an obsessive odyssey to construct just such a useless craft. But he also describes it as being in the same "lunatic, triumph-of-the-human- spirit category" as a Baltimore street performer.
Now it's fine when somebody standing on the outside takes your story and uses such overblown ...
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