{"product_id":"9780714505114","title":"The Sailor from Gibraltar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A haunting tale of strange and random passion.\"— \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisaffected, bored with his career at the French Colonial Ministry (where he has copied out birth and death certificates for eight years), and disgusted by a mistress whose vapid optimism arouses his most violent misogyny, the narrator of \u003ci\u003eThe Sailor from Gibraltar\u003c\/i\u003e finds himself at the point of complete breakdown while vacationing in Florence. After leaving his mistress and the Ministry behind forever, he joins the crew of The Gibraltar, a yacht captained by Anna, a beautiful American in perpetual search of her sometime lover, a young man known only as the \"Sailor from Gibraltar.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1952, this early novel of Duras's—which was made into a film in 1967—shows those preoccupations which have so deeply concerned her in her later novels and film scripts: loneliness, boredom, the inevitability and intangibility of love. The lambent poetry of the book, and the limning of a woman's mind, her love and sense of the inevitability of that love are singularly Marguerite Duras.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMarguerite Duras\u003c\/b\u003e wrote dozens of plays, film scripts, and novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Ravishing of Lol Stein\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eThe Sea Wall\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eHiroshima, Mon Amour\u003c\/i\u003e . She's most well known for \u003ci\u003eThe Lover\u003c\/i\u003e which received the Goncourt prize in 1984 and was made into a film in 1992.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eBarbara Bray\u003c\/b\u003e translated several works by Marguerite Duras, including \u003ci\u003eThe Malady of Death\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eThe Lover\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eThe War.\u003c\/i\u003e In addition, she has translated Jean Genet, Ismail Kadare, and Tahar Ben Jelloun, and has received the French-American Foundation Translation Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Riverrun Press, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47028405272816,"sku":"9780714505114","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780714505114","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}