To the White Sea | Characters
Take Hemingway's most macho man multiplied to the fifth power and you begin to see the hero of To the White Sea, a hunter and survivor whose world has no place for women. Then place him in psychological territory reminiscent of Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1902), and you have tail-gunner Muldrow, shot down but not out over Tokyo, cutting a swath across Japan in his wartime adventures, part human, part wolverine, and part poet.
Muldrow is a loner, regarded by his Air Force colleagues with a mixture of awe and fear. He seems entirely detached from the events from the...
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