Wanderer - by Sterling Hayden (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Fourteen years ago, when it was first published, <em>Wanderer</em> startled the reading world. Here was no simple narrative of a sea voyage, and here was the antithesis of a self-serving Hollywood memoir.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Sterling Hayden was at the peak of his earning power as a star when he suddenly quit. He walked out on Hollywood, walked out of a shattered marriage, defied the courts, and, broke and an outlaw, set sail with his four children in the schooner <em>Wanderer</em>--bound for the South Seas.</p><p>Long before he was an actor, Hayden was a seaman. He had sailed before the mast and as mate and captain in sailing ships. He had been a Grand Banks fisherman. Then Hollywood offered him a screen test. Pushed to stardom, he became the leading man to one of the screen's most beautiful women, and the money began to flow. With money and fame, however, came a gnawing dissatisfaction with his life.</p><p>His attempt to escape launches this autobiography. It is the candid, sometimes painfully revealing confession of a man who scrutinizes his every self-defeat and self-betrayal in the unblinking light of conscience. It is also the triumph of a complex and contradictory man, still a rebel and a seeker, undefeated by his failure to find himself in love, adventure, drink, or escape to the South Seas.</p><p>It is, as Eugene Burdick said of it, utterly fascinating, written by a man who has been able to achieve an honesty about himself which is almost unique.</p>
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