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Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine
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Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine is a masterpiece of modern domestic life, a comic novel of closeness and difficulty, miscommunication and stubborn resolve. "Forty years ago I first linked up with Unguentine and we made love on twin-hulled catamarans, sails a-billow, bless the seas...
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Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine is a masterpiece of modern domestic life, a comic novel of closeness and difficulty, miscommunication and stubborn resolve.
"Forty years ago I first linked up with Unguentine and we made love on twin-hulled catamarans, sails a-billow, bless the seas . . ."
So begins the courtship of a certain Unguentine to the woman we know only as "Mrs. Unguentine," the chronicler of their sad, fantastical tale. For forty years, they sail the seas together, alone on a giant land-covered barge of their own devising. They tend their gardens, raise a child, invent an artificial forest—all the while steering clear of civilisation.
Rarely has a book so perfectly registered the secret solitude of marriage, how shared loneliness can result in a powerful bond.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781628975628
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 September 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Afterword by Ben Marcus
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 139.0mm
Height: 215.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 86
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About the Author
Stanley Crawford (1937-2024) wrote and farmed with his late wife Rosemary in Northern New Mexico from 1969 until his passing. He was the author of five novels and three works of nonfiction and was the recipient of two NEA writing fellowships and a three-year Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writing Award. In his later years, he taught at Colorado College and with the UMass Amherst MFA Writing Program.
Ben Marcus was born in Chicago in 1967. The son of a mathematician and a literary scholar, he was raised in the Midwest, Austin, London, Aarhus, and New York. He holds degrees from New York University and Brown University, and has taught at schools in Texas, Virginia, New York, and Rhode Island. In addition to The Age of Wire and String, he is also the author of Notable American Women, Leaving the Sea, New American Stories, andNotes from the Fog.
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