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“Like that second the in its title, Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine is a stubborn creation that demands attention, and that odd surname is right on the money: This formally seamless book stings and soothes, like the most potent ointment, applied to literature too content to play it far too safe.” (Bookforum)

“While Crawford's novel brings to mind the great literature of the sea (Moby-Dick, Mutiny on the Bounty, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"), he doesn't allude to it; he doesn't have to. Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine—the book's most inelegant passage is its title—is a brave and audacious novel whose style, structure, story and language come together like strands of hemp spliced into an intricate knot.” (Chicago Tribune)

“No one captures the mind of a control freak like Stanley Crawford.” (The Village Voice)

About the Author

Ben Marcus is a surfer and skateboarder for life. He was Surfer magazine associate editor and still writes for Surfer, The Surfer's Journal, and others. He's the author of our The Surfboard, Surfing USA!, Surfing & the Meaning of Life, and The Surfer's Handbook. He lives in Malibu, of course. www.benmarcusrules.com

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1564785122
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dalkey Archive Press; First Dalkey edition (September 1, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 113 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781564785121
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1564785121
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 0.4 x 7.7 inches

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Brent Taylor

The Book of Genesis as follows Revelations

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 12, 2021

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The Book of Genesis as follows Revelations. There are no resets. This is the greatest argument for and against marriage in literature, depending on who you married. Such a slim, meditative, and ethereal work. It's got touches of Kesey, Vonnegut, and Denis Johnson in its readability and depth, though it's measured in terms of pace for only a 100 page book. It's influence can only be biblical through a post-modern lens: Absurd and tragic. I read this book twice in a row and will read it again.

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J.M.F.

Allegorical magical realism

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2010

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Wonderful masterpiece in just over 100 pages. To think that this book was out of print makes me nauseous, what other wonderful great novels are we missing out on. This novel is a great achievement, a perfect allegory, along the lines of the magic realism, of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, of every marriage on earth, where "being on the same boat" suddenly acquires a new, frightening, wonderful, inexplicably uncommunicable beauty and pain.

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Gordon Lish's second favorite novel, after Motorman

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2007

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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.

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Robert F.

Loved it everytime I read it!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 28, 2022

Found this little gem in the 70's in a pile of books "on sale"... I read and re read Unguentine at least 10 times in the course of 35 years... then we had a house fire.. and of all the things we lost our books were the worst esp. The ones like the log of the ss mrs. Unguentine..treasure this gem..

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 24, 2015

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Weird but interesting.

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Postmodern Magical Realism Meets "Messing about in Boats"

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 20, 2015

Sometimes you want to read a book that's just interesting and fun. Well, here it is.

I don't know about the "masterpiece" raves. We do meander a bit and Mrs. Unguentine, our narrator, is not terribly engaging or particularly insightful. But, if you approach this as more of an exercise in the art of being subtly interesting or as an experiment in form and style, or if you take it as a meditation on marriage and coupling, or on the limits and bonds of intimacy, well it has its rewards.

Anyway, if you have to spend time trapped on a boat, this better than doing so with some kid and a tiger.

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Simone Oltolina

Here is your classic 'cult' novella

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 31, 2010

'Log of the S.S. The Mrs Urguentine'... Do you need any more cues? It's frankly clear from the start that we are dealing with 'cult' stuff.

Written in 1972, this short piece of fiction (little over 100 pages, plus a 5-pages afterword to help you put things in perspective) can be enjoyed in one gulp.

It chronicles the adventures of Mr. Unguentine, his wife (who is to remain namelesse throughout the novel) and their uncanny marriage, living aboard a quasi-magical barge complete with a glass-dome, a forest, animals and a maze-like feel.
This smells in many ways of magical realism and, while it feels much more post-modern than anything Marquez wrote, it still brings him to mind from time to time.
Mr. Unguentine is a surreal character. He took to living on a barge, far from any form of civilization and took his wife with him (almost adbucted her, I'd say). Their relationship borders on the master-slave paradigm, although Mr. Uguentine is capable, from time to time, to show love in his own peculiar ways.

In a way, this novel belongs to the 'what if?' literary genre. What if two adult people were to live for 40 years in absolute isolation, on a floating barge full of clever (impossible?) inventions? What sort of disturbed/alienated relationship would they develop? Throw in some magical realism and you get the basic, yet deeply original, recipe for this novel.

For those who have adventurous tastes in all-things lit., this might prove to be a deeply satisfying, albeit quick, read.

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Absolutely bargeful

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 1, 2009

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.

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Great writer

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 26, 2019

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Interesting Read. This is one of two books I've read from Stanley Crawford. This guy knows words and that adds so much to reading.

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