The Voyage
By Philip Caputo
(Vintage, Paperback, 9780679768395, 432pp.)
Publication Date: November 14, 2000
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In the tradition of great seafaring adventures, The Voyage is an intricately plotted, superbly detailed, and gripping story of adventure and courage. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Caputo has written a timeless novel about the dangerous reverberating effects of long held family secrets.
On a June morning in 1901, Cyrus Braithwaite orders his three sons to set sail from their Maine home aboard the family's forty-six-foot schooner and not return until September. Though confused and hurt by their father's cold-blooded actions, the three brothers soon rise to the occasion and embark on a breathtakingly perilous journey down the East Coast, headed for the Florida Keys.
Almost one hundred years later, Cyrus's great-granddaughter Sybil sets out to uncover the events that transpired on the voyage. Her discoveries about the Braithwaite family and the America they lived in unfolds into a stunning tale of intrigue, murder, lies and deceit.
Philip Caputo lives in Connecticut.
"The spirit of Joseph Conrad . . . haunts Philip Caputo's adventure-filled story." --The New York Times Book Review
"The pages billow and snap with tension." --The Boston Globe
"A sea story in the grand tradition of Conrad and Melville, this shamelessly salty and unbearably exciting novel is a welcome reminder that imagination transports us where facts cannot, that adventure created by a master storyteller can make reality seem tame." --Daily News
"A high seas classic combined with a mystery." --San Francisco Chronicle
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