Novel
The Race
Ruth France · 1958
Synopsis
The novel starts from the 1951 yacht race between Lyttelton and Wellington, which the storm made fatal. The details of the plot are not described.
Context
The first novel by its author, it appeared with Constable in 1958; until then she had published only a collection of verse, Unwilling Pilgrim, in 1955. Her husband had taken part in the event that inspires it, a sailing crossing that bad weather had turned into a disaster. The editor of the Listener, Monte Holcroft, hailed it as a new kind of novel. Its author produced a second, Ice Cold River, three years later.
Who it is for
A novel of a little under two hundred pages, never translated into French, set in the world of sailing.
Prizes and reception
Achievement award of the New Zealand literary fund, worth one hundred pounds.
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