Joseph Conrad: Victory (1915)

I'm going to start the answer from far far way. (Patience is the one thing you are going to need to read Joseph Conrad's Victory anyway.)

Why did I pick up this book? Because Joan Didion told me so. I don't want to pretend that I know many books of Joan Didion but I surely know her The Year of Magical Thinking, which I believe will be forever a classic and one of the best nonfiction ever written on loss and grief. It's so amazing t...