John Moynihan
publisher
Spiegel & Grau
format
Hardcover
pages
256 pages
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This posthumously published book, from the son of New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, tells the story of how the author left Wesleyan University during the summer of his Junior year and joined the merchant marine. He spent four months crossing the equator on an oil supertanker call The Rose City. This is a young man's book, for sure; it was written when the author was barely twenty. But Moynihan has a good story to tell, one that flecked with briny bits of Melville and Conrad and Raban. His unpretentious prose has genuine immediacy. Moynihan is never less than frank, funny company on the page.
About the AuthorJohn Moynihan was born in Syracuse, New York, and lived with his family in India for two years during middle school. That experience, and the travels that went with it, set him on a lifelong quest to see the wider world. He worked as a writer and animator and loved teaching as he traveled, always returning to New York City, his home base.
Beyond the book