Author & Book Essays: The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat

Author & Book Essays: The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat

A debatably wise man once said that the best-seller was a gilded tomb for a mediocre talent. As with all easy aphorisms, it’s only 90 percent true. 
 
The riddle is solved one of two ways: either the writer of the best-seller stumbled blindly upon a winning formula that one time only, or the writer always knew what they were doing and some combination of chance and synergy caused that one book to take flight.  

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