The Shadow-Line
“David Horovitch’s gifted performance lifts Joseph Conrad’s slight novel from a minor work to a genuine pleasure…Listening to Horovitch’s fine slightly hoarse voice, varied by accent and expression for the various characters, is its own pleasure. He brings to bear an unfailing sensitivity, giving each line its proper delivery and emotional weight. The intelligence, deftness, and sheer interest of his acting make this audio version—even with the book’s stylistic doldrums—something to relish and admire.”
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An unsettling tale of plague, drift, and terror, The Shadow-Line documents a young seaman’s coming of age after he is recruited to captain a ship for the first time.
Bad luck and disease haunt the inexperienced hero and his crew, and the evil legacy of the previous captain overshadows them with a feeling of supernatural menace. Against all odds, the young captain must get his crew through the Gulf of Siam to safety in Singapore, before they succumb to malaria and the curse of his mad predecessor
Written in 1915 and based on Conrad’s own experiences twenty-seven years earlier, The Shadow-Line is a gripping take on the lines between youth and maturity, sanity and madness.
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