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Suffering from an incurable, gradually debilitating disease, thirty-nine-year-old Jack quits his job, refurbishes his sailboat, and joins his older brother, Joe, on a voyage to tiny Walker Island, an enigmatic locale that may or may not actually exist. 10,000 first printing.

144 pages, Hardcover

First published July 15, 1998

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Joseph T. Klempner

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His full name is Joseph Teller Klempner, and he is also published as
Joseph Teller , at which web site further biographical information may be found.

Joseph T. Klempner is a former undercover agent for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (now the Drug Enforcement Agency) and later as a defense attorney in New York City.

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November 20, 2016
ONoe of the best I have read from this author. An autobiography of sorts / life and end of life decisions / brotherly love and sailing. All things I can relate to. I cried as I read and couldn't stop reading until I was finished. My own brother survived a storm after having been swept overboard and I could SO imagine this story.
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July 30, 2010
je n'ai jamais lus autant de chose sur les relation entre les frères. on dirait que peu de romancier s'intéressent a ce sujet
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July 14, 2025
“Ses propos en disaient moins long sur ses prouesses que sur l'intensité de sa passion - sur la manière dont il avait grandi avec ce besoin dévorant d'aimer, d'être aimé et, surtout, de tomber amoureux.”

“Si seulement je pouvais arrêter le temps! Me retrouver en un point et en un lieu précis du passé, et y rester pour toujours - coupé du reste du monde, à l'abri du futur.”

“Une sensation d'épuisement si intense m'envahit qu'à certains moments, je le jure, peu m'importait de vivre ou de mourir. Cette nuit-là, je commençai à comprendre pourquoi on se suicide: je découvris qu'on peut se sentir usé, au bout du rouleau, au point de ne plus avoir la force de lutter une minute de plus. On atteint le stade où poursuivre le combat demande une énergie phénoménale, dont on se rend compte qu'on ne l'a plus. On finit par s'en moquer, par se laisser aller.”
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