Edmund Carr is at sea in more ways than one. An eminentjournalist and self-made man, he has recently discovered that hehas only a short time to live. Leaving his job on a Fleet Streetpaper, he takes a passage on a cruise ship where he knows thatLaura, a beautiful and intelligent widow whom he secretly admires,will be a fellow passenger. Exhilarated by the distant vista ofexotic islands never to be visited and his conversations withLaura, Edmund finds himself rethinking all his values. A voyage onmany levels, those long purposeless days at sea find Edumndrelinquishing the past as he discovers the joys and the pain of alove he is simultaneously determined to conceal.
【作者简介】
Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) was born and educated at Knole.She and her husband Harold Nicolson created the famous garden atSissinghurst Castle in Kent.
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