To the White Sea (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Dickey
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Plot: War
- Time of Work: 1945
- Setting: Japan
- Principal Characters: Sergeant Muldrow, The American monk, The falconer
- Genres: Long fiction, War fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Power, personal or social, World War II, Dreams, Spiritualism, Survivalism, Mysticism, Loneliness, Birds, Japan or Japanese people, Alaska, Arctic, Instinct, Parachutes, Pilots or pilotage
- Locales: Japan
The Novel
To the White Sea recounts the journey of Sergeant Muldrow from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido. Muldrow bails out of his plane, an American B-29 bomber, when it is shot down on a raid over Tokyo. He is the crew’s only survivor.
Muldrow’s journey begins in a sewer, where he hides while awaiting the next day’s bombing raid by the Americans. Amid the panic and chaos it causes, he joins the crowds streaming through the burning city, shoots a man for his clothing, stabs a woman who recognizes that he is foreign, and stabs another man for his...
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