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Sterling Hayden was a great writer. His autobiography is a vivid and riveting pastiche that moves forward & backward in time: much like film. What a life!!. Besides being a first class sailor he was an avid readerer of Novels, nonfiction & philosophy; books with substance which made him feel like an outsider whether he was at sea or in Hollywood. So in a sense, he was "at sea" much of his life. As a writer he "found his voice" relatively late in life. Also , between the lines, it is pretty clear that he drank too much. WANDERER is both brutally frank & vulnerably candid. Both WANDERER & VOYAGE are very "gritty". VOYAGE: A NOVEL OF 1896 is a long, rich, vivid multi-themed epic with vividly realized characters, powerfully constructed multiple plots full of brooding ruminations about capitalism vs socialism; & rugged invididuality vs team work, the decadence of material surfit & the tragedy of abject poverty; the working conditions of 19th c sailors & the struggles of teh labor movement. PLUS the war bewteen the sexes in 1896: & all this between the lines of a wallopping page turner that is totally true to its period detail. It has at least 12 major characters & a host of lesser ones ALL FULLY REALIZED. I read it & immmediately though "Thomas Hardy does Existentialism". It would make a GREAT FILM, but to do it justice it would have to be as long as LORD OF THE RINGS,with the same monumental attention to detail. I wonder who has the film rights.
are there guidelines for when this should & shouldn't be done? Dingsuntil ( talk) 00:05, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
On the AHC show "what history forgot" they claimed that he was also a frogman in WWII. 108.28.23.254 ( talk) 15:30, 12 April 2016 (UTC)