Zagłada Calaurii

by Brian Callison

Ogromny tankowiec "Calauria", wypełniony po brzegi arabską ropą, wpłynął do portu w cichej i malowniczej do niedawna szkockiej zatoce. Misternie opracowany przez niedoświadczonego pierwszego oficera plan rozładunku okazał się tragiczną pomyłką.

Genres: Novels

253 pages, Paperback

First published October 9, 1986

About the author

Brian Callison was a British novelist known for his best-selling thrillers and sea stories. Born in Manchester, England in 1934, he was educated at the High School of Dundee, and went to sea at the age of 16 as an apprentice with the Blue Funnel Line, sailing aboard cargo ships between ports in Europe and East Asia. Callison subsequently studied at Dundee College of Art in Scotland, and went into business. His first published novel, A Flock of Ships, appeared in 1970. In 2008 he completed a three-year appointment as a Fellow of The Royal Literary Fund at the University of Dundee, mentoring staff and students in all aspects of practical writing.
Callison died in Dundee on 5 February 2024, at the age of 89.

Reviews

[Robert Fontenot · Rating 2 out of 5]

Overwritten and hard to parse. When I read a disaster novel I expect pathos and carnage but what this has is labyrinthine sentence structure and approximations of Scottish dialect. It is both hard to read and unrewarding when you do.