Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine [Paperback]

Stanley G. [SIGNED] Crawford (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Living Batch Press (1988)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001N14OZC
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gordon Lish's second favorite novel, after Motorman, January 18, 2007

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A Reader (Lawrence, KS USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine (Paperback)

This neglected masterpiece needs to be returned to print immediately. It is one of the greatest novels of the past half century. Prose this exquisite and sad and funny deserves a wide, ecstatic readership. This is a sea-tale about the deep loneliness between intimates and how that very loneliness can result in an even more powerful bond.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars people: you should read this, September 8, 2008

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M. Kalbach "lord of the dance" (philadelphia, pa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine (Paperback)

if you like to read books that are interesting and strange and funny and sad you will like to read this book. this book is much better than this review. the book is well written, this review is not. everything this review lacks, the novel contains. if you like boats you must read this book. this review is failing to do this book justice. it is very good, you will be happy, it will make you smile.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely bargeful, July 31, 2009

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Exordia N. (Iowa City, Iowa USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine (Paperback)

I wrote a review of this during lunch and lost it completely. So here goes it. Again. David insisted that I read this book before sending it to him. So last night, I babysat an insomnia and read the book like a slow lightning bolt. This book deserves my nod.

To barge on a barge, the story begins with the sardonic, melodious voice of Mrs Unguentine, whose abusive, inebriated husband invents lavished nautical things such as a colossal dome on a barge and a fake, really fake, Amazon to pass their 40 years voyage at sea staying quite clear of land and civilization. Poor (sweet) potentially obese Ungentine endures forty years of the tendered, reticent, violent blows of her brilliant, mildly deranged marriage.

An eccentric meditation on the perverse connubial life of a modern Adam and Eve. The narrative flows intensely and fluidly. An extraordinary invention. Too bad the book got submerged or blanched out by the political upheavals (Vietnam war, the Munich Massacre) of the 70s and I haven't been exposed to it until now.