E: 22/1 Win £25 Book token (THES) email comp

suez_channel

Hope I did not overlook a previous posting of this weeks Comp
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17 January 2008

This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a sea-faring voyage of self-discovery:

"Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women."

Entries, including postal address, should be sent to First Impressions, Times Higher Education, 26 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4HQ, faxed to 020 3194 3300 or e-mailed to [EMAIL="chat@timeshighereducation.co.uk"]chat@timeshighereducation.co.uk [/EMAIL]

The winner receives a £25 book voucher. The closing date is January 22.

The winner of last week’s competition, who identified Troubled Sleep by Jean-Paul Sartre, is Paul Webster of Redditch in Worcs. ~ one of our own MSE’Rs

ANSWER (by googling) http://www.spokesmanreview.com/interactive/bookclub/interviews/interview.asp?IntID=34
"Middle Passage" by Charles Johnson, the novel that won the 1990 National Book Award for fiction.

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Set in 1830, "Middle Passage" tells the story of newly freed slave Rutherford Calhoun. Having ventured into New Orleans, Calhoun finds himself facing a choice: marriage to a woman he doesn't want or going to sea.

In fact, the novel's opening lines lay out our protagonist's predicament: "Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is woman."

webbo100

Thanks Suez_Channel I never thought to check for this weeks comp when I got the WEM.

SoozyJ22

Thanks for posting this. Catz is away for a few days and asked me to post this in her absence, but you've saved me the trouble