The Voyage: A Novel

by Philip Caputo

Paperback, 2000

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Genres

General Fiction

All Topics

Fiction

Collection

Your library

Publication

Vintage (2000), Edition: First Edition, 415 pages

Description

In the tradition of great seafaring adventures, The Voyage is an intricately plotted, superbly detailed, and gripping story of adventure and courage. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Caputo has written a timeless novel about the dangerous reverberating effects of long held family secrets. On a June morning in 1901, Cyrus Braithwaite orders his three sons to set sail from their Maine home aboard the family's forty-six-foot schooner and not return until September. Though confused and hurt by their father's cold-blooded actions, the three brothers soon rise to the occasion and embark on a breathtakingly perilous journey down the East Coast, headed for the Florida Keys. Almost one hundred years later, Cyrus's great-granddaughter Sybil sets out to uncover the events that transpired on the voyage. Her discoveries about the Braithwaite family and the America they lived in unfolds into a stunning tale of intrigue, murder, lies and deceit.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member repb

It well may be Philip Caputo has just become my favorite author! The Voyage was an absolutely wonderful read. Although it takes some discipline to wade through the final sequence, it was more than worth it. This is only the second novel of his I have read and I am amazed how different they were -

although both five-star excellent! Wonderful writing, characters and attention to detail.

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LibraryThing member ElizaGronigsfeld

I don't know about this yet. I haven't finished it. So far... I don't know.

LibraryThing member maryreinert

I love Caputo's writing style and found this book fascinating in spite of the fact that I know absolutely nothing about sailing. All the sailing terms left me pretty confused at times. In spite of that, I enjoyed reading the book and loved the final chapters. Unlike several other reviewers who were

able to pick up clues as to why the boys were sent to sea, I didn't know until the ending so I liked the final chapter. Family histories can be very complicated and we are indeed always the products of our family histories whether we like them or not.

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LibraryThing member buttsy1

I gave up on this about halfway through. I got tired of all the technical sailing descriptions, a predictable barroom fight, and a tedious story of rich boys that was going nowhere.

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