Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So as an adult, naturally he jumped at the chance to spend a week onboard the aircraft carrier the USS"George H.W. Bush."Part deft travelogue, part unerring social observation, and part finely honed comedy, "Another Great Day at Sea" is the inimitable Dyer s account of his time spent wandering the ship s maze of walkways, hatches, and stairs, and talking with the crew from the Captain to the ship s dentists. A lanky Englishman in a deeply American world, Dyer brilliantly records daily life aboard this floating fortress, revealing it to be a prism for understanding a society where discipline and conformity become forms of self-expression. At the same time we are reminded why Dyer is celebrated as one of the most original voices in contemporary literature.
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