The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O’Brian: a short review
There’s some wonderful writing in this book–the first chapter, in particular, is a tour-de-force of historical reconstruction–but I find the book less than satisfying.
This short review was originally published on LibraryThing.
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Sunday June 15th 2008
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