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Quint
- Narrated by: Nick Landrum
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
'Uncannily brilliant… a book to be swallowed whole' EVIE WYLD
‘Excellent… a profound portrait of a life dislocated by war and violence’ THE TIMES
Before there was Jaws, there was… QUINT
This powerful and brilliant literary novel takes a character who, through Peter Benchley’s novel and particularly Steven Spielberg’s film, has become etched in our cultural imagination: Quint, the taciturn and grizzled sea captain who survived the shark-ridden sinking of the USS Indianapolis only to meet his end in the maw of a Great White at the end of JAWS.
From the very first line, Quint’s voice is fresh, vivid and immediately transfixing. From his early seafaring days, via the life-altering events of 1945 to his arrival on Amity, this is a glorious literary picaresque with echoes of HemingwayFifteen years since I landed on Amity, an island full of rich folks adrift between the Hamptons and Montauk.
Got a business and a boat, got me a truck with my name and a pretty shark scratched on the door. Carved it myself. Bad job.
I got ghosts around me, lot of ghosts. Gotta put ‘em somewhere. Can’t drink ‘em all. Ain’t here for company, and I only got two stories for telling company anyways.
Thinking if I get them stories down, on paper mind, then that’s just between me and the ink.
You already know the end of his story: now find out where it all began. So much more than a fisherman, Quint is a survivor, a fighter, a man who has left three wives in his wake.
From his time as a young sailor facing the horrors of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, to a deadly night-long showdown with a frenzy of sharks years later, before he finally settles on the island of Amity: this extraordinary act of literary ventriloquism is a vivid and utterly compelling reimagining of the life of a truly iconic character – from the acclaimed author of THE DRAUGHTSMAN and THE ROAD TO RECKONING.
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- MR T O Ashworth
- 14-03-24
Quint
I took awhile to get into the concept of Quint telling me his story but I became more and more engrossed as it went. A must for fans of Jaws.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-02-24
Great story
This book adds a new dimension to the Jaws story. It gives you much background to one of the original story’s most memorable characters.
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- John Joseph Gallagher
- 06-02-24
A good prequel to the movie however the narrator doesn’t hold the voice for quint it can sometimes take you out of the story
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- Matt Wilson
- 07-04-24
Fantastic
I wanted the story to keep going towards the end that's when you know you are reading a great book when the time passes too quickly it ended correctly I think,I like this as it's own story without the need to make the connections to the film.
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- Gene Fallaize
- 05-03-24
Endlessly boring. Had to return it for a refund.
It’s very rare I will give a book negative feedback, especially publicly, but having been looking forward to the release of this book for many months before it was released, to say I was disappointed would be an understatement. It was quite possibly the most boring thing I’ve ever listened to in my life.
Admittedly in hindsight, I’m not sure what I was expecting from the fictional autobiography of a fisherman living in Amity, but it sure wasn’t this.
I was looking forward to learning more about his experience on the Indianapolis, but it felt like it was the only interesting thing the writer could think the character had ever done, and kept referencing it constantly, but somehow without it actually adding anything more to the monologue Quint gives in the film.
If you’re a big Jaws fan, like I am, give it a listen, sure. But make sure you’re prepared for disappointment, and then you might just like it. Unfortunately my expectations were high, and the book didn’t deliver, and I couldn’t finish it.
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