The Plover: A Novel, by Brian Doyle
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The Plover: A Novel, by Brian Doyle
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Declan O Donnell has sailed deep into the vast, wild ocean, having had just finally enough of other people and their problems. He will go it alone, he will be his own country, he will be beholden to and beloved of no one.
But the galaxy soon presents him with a string of odd, entertaining, and dangerous passengers, who become companions of every sort and stripe. The Plover is the story of their adventures and misadventures in the immense blue country one of their company calls Pacifica. Hounded by a mysterious enemy, reluctantly acquiring one new resident after another, Declan O Donnell's lonely boat is eventually crammed with humor, argument, tension, and a resident herring gull.
Brian Doyle's The Plover is a sea novel, a maritime adventure, the story of a cold man melting, a compendium of small miracles, an elegy to Edmund Burke, a watery quest, a battle at sea---and a rapturous, heartfelt celebration of life's surprising paths, planned and unplanned.
The Plover: A Novel, by Brian Doyle- Brand: Doyle, Brian
- Published on: 2015-03-31
- Released on: 2015-03-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.29" h x .96" w x 5.52" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
From Booklist A jack of all literary trades, Doyle (Leaping: Revelations & Epiphanies, 2013) augments his impressive oeuvre with this whimsical dreamscape of a nautical adventure about desolation and friendship. To escape his haunting loneliness, Declan O Donnell sets out on the high seas with no intention of returning to his Oregon home. In fact, he has no intentions at all, except to wander “west and then west” to distance himself from his troubling past. With little company besides a copy of conservative orator Edmund Burke’s speeches and the occasional gull, Declan drifts into the Pacific void to discover not solitude but unlikely companionship. Reluctantly agreeing to aid his recently widowed friend, Piko, and his disabled daughter, Declan finds himself extemporizing fatherhood and pursuing pirates when Piko gets kidnapped. As the adventure escalates, so does the number of his shipmates, humans and sea creatures alike. In stylized prose with frequent nods to Coleridge, Melville, and Stevenson, Doyle’s surreal world is alive with vivid characters, mysterious birds, and lyrical philosophy about contentment. A joyous journey of discovery. --Jonathan Fullmer
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“Brian Doyle writes with Melville's humor, Whitman's ecstasy, and Faulkner's run-on sentences . . . Few contemporary novels shimmer like this one.” ―Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See
“Conrad, Stevenson, and Jack London come to mind, but so does the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez . . . The Plover sails delightfully on an imaginative sea of insight, compassion, and a kind of mystical grace.” ―The Seattle Times
“It is Doyle's careful shaping of his characters' internal landscapes that makes The Plover so unique . . . A novel of wondrous ideas worth mulling over.” ―The Oregonian
“A rare and unusual book and a brilliant, mystical exploration of the human spirit.” ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Brian Doyle has spun a great sea story, filled with apparitions, poetry, thrills, and wisdom. The sweet, buoyant joy under every sentence carried me along and had me cheering. I enjoyed this book enormously.” ―Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia and The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days
“Board this boat! Here's Doyle at his probing, astonishing, wordslinging best.” ―Robin Cody, author of Voyage of a Summer Sun
“The Plover alternately reminded me of The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey, with its crippled main character and fictional country; The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, for strange adventures at sea; Florence and Giles by John Harding, for made-up words; and the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez for the elements of magical realism. ” ―Booksquawk
“Doyle has written a novel in the adventurous style of Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson but with a gentle mocking of their valorization of the individual as absolute. Readers will enjoy this bracing and euphoric ode to the vastness of the ocean and the unexpectedness of life.” ―Library Journal (starred)
“A novel about the sea. It is a rhythmic read. The cadence of the sea and of on-board conversation creates a mosaic of movement. The ocean serves as both protagonist and antagonist. It holds everyone together as it strives to pull everyone apart. It slides through the novel and lulls us into its great heart.” ―The Portland Book Review
“The Plover is a fun ride with meaning and heart, lots of it, as well as jokes, scares, storms at sea, surprises, magic, absurdity--and humanity, exuberant joyful humanity.” ―Shelf Awareness (starred review)
“I don't know how many all-bird novels are out there, but Doyle could rule the canon. The aviary ensemble of The Plover ('those who have heard it say it has a mournful yet eager sound'), separated from the whole of the narrative, deftly and gracefully drives a stand-alone tale. ... But this is a people story -- it's full of them. They are colorfully introduced, down to the detailed fabric of their being and then often released from the tale, only to be intricately woven back in.” ―The Register-Guard
About the Author
Brian Doyle edits Portland Magazine at the University of Portland in Oregon. He is the author of many books, among them the sprawling Oregon novel Mink River. His work has been reprinted in the annual Best American Essays, Best American Science and Nature Writing, and Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. Among various honors for his work are a Catholic Book Award, three Pushcart Prizes, the John Burroughs Award for Nature Essays, Foreword Reviews's Book of the Year Award in 2011, and, puzzling him to this day, the 2008 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful. A Pæan To The Pacific By Daniel Myers The first chapter of this jaunty, maritime wonder of a book comes as close to a pitch perfect hymn to the sea and all those who travel thereon as I’ve ever read, and I’ve read quite a lot about the sea. It’s jaunty. It’s lilting and lovely and bewitching and….well, you get the idea. Or perhaps not? Well, I haven’t been taken to task, yet, for quoting from an ARC in a, by and large, POSITIVE review, YET; So, here’s a striking passage from that first chapter whereby the prospective reader may judge if s/he has a taste for it:“We do not even know what it is we do not know, and what we do know passeth speedily away, inundated by what we do know; yet on we go through the ravines, gaping as we go; leaving behind neither fin nor fossil, but stories and voices, tales and music, shreds of memory, faint wakes of words in the water.”So runs the jaunty, alliterative poetic prose of Declan O'Donnell as he leaves land behind in the company of Edmund Burke and a gull. His adventures on the main have echoes of Coleridge and a bit of Melville, and sundry other literary maritime lights. But I think one reviewer has it pretty much spot-on when he contends that Doyle and O’Donnell reflect the pre Moby Dick Melville, the Melville of Omoo, Typee, and, especially, Mardi. The author himself claims Stevenson as his literary muse. This book - despite its few bounces and jolts happed upon by Declan O’Donnell and his acquired crew - is an idyll. That is to say, it’s the sea minus Joseph Conrad and the darker side of Melville. This is not to say that deaths by water and darkness are not acknowledged with some, at times, striking, lyrical aperçus, but they’re not at the heart of things, so to speak.What you have, again, is a lyrical idyll, full of whimsy and light and, not to put too fine a point on it, sweetness. The philosophical undercurrents are animistic and anti-Gnostic. It’s a rainbow-hued splash around the shoals of the unpacific Pacific.Needful to say, it comes across at times as bit of literary spendrift. It’s a lovely pæan, but largely skims above the darker undertows and their implications. As an antidote, I’d recommend another - non-fiction - literary account of a solo voyage in the Pacific by another mariner obsessed by Edmund Burke. Jonathan Raban’s Passage To Juneau is an exquisitely penned account laden with the dark, brooding ballast absent from this novel.But this book is a well-penned lark, me swabs. So, hoist anchor and away into this delightful voyage into, well, “the glee of the sea”.
34 of 42 people found the following review helpful. stormy weather boys By Patrick O Yeah, three stars. There it is. Before I get to why, a little preface. Doyle is clearly a great writer, a master of the craft. I wish I could write even near as well as Brian Doyle. So, three stars? Yeah. The thing about Amazon is its not really about a literary review in the classic sense. It's a place where people go to buy stuff, including books, and so the reviews are meant to help readers figure out if they want to make a purchase. I chose to read this book based on the stellar reviews. This now is the review I wish I had read before picking it.Like I said, Doyle is a great writer, at the height of contemporary fashion in style. And he knows this is true and his fans know this is true. If you disagree you're likely wrong and worthy of being a tool of knowing amusement by your self-appointed betters. Which means it's a risk to not join the popular kids at their table, especially when they're probably right. I'm not a big literary fiction aficionado, either in girth or purchase history, but I've been a voracious reader my whole life. Jack London and Michener shaped my junior high and high school years. Dostoevsky and Milton arrived in college. Yoskikawa and so many others filled my time. Mark Twain came a bit late, when I found his short stories and then his travel musings. All still favorites. My current profession involves reading a significant amount of very deep and complicated prose. So, I read fiction mostly for relaxation, content neither with shallow or bombast. Doyle's background and topic intrigued me, though. I'm a SoCal guy with connections to the northwest. I love sailing. I love reading books about voyages. Richard Henry Dana got me started with his depiction of early 19th century California. I've camped on islands off the coast, slept next to sea gulls and elephant seals. As a fan of early Irish tales and monastic writings, Brendan's voyage is a beloved text. I liked the idea, the background, the thrust of The Plover's description.So, three stars. That's what I'm left with. Pure craft? 5 stars. The whole package? That's what I'm assessing, and it's 3.First, what I like. A lot of literary fiction involves hyperbolic characters, outlandish humanity intended to stir the waters of bourgeois ennui. Put them in a skeleton plot and let them bump into each other. Doyle's characters aren't particularly real, but they're close, and there's a plot, even some drama and development, that gets a reader from one spot to the next. A man on a solo cruise quickly gains company and then encounters injustice, maybe evil, even while there's restoration, more restoration than solitude might have offered. Everyone is damaged but damaged in different ways, trying to make their way back to light and voice. There's a mystical quality as well, the birds and the ocean itself characters with their own voices and comments. I know what it's like to talk to trees and birds and bodies of water. I know what it's like when they talk back. I liked Doyle's ecological breadth, it felt holistic, true to those who find a deep resonance in and with an often contrary Nature. Lots of imagery and a way with words that pulls the reader in very specific directions, using not only the words, but grammar and paragraphs. It's a modern art approach to writing where the goal isn't always a specific image but rather a mood.The problem, for me, is that the mood is so entirely chaotic. I remember camping on a mile square island off the coast a few years ago. Usually a very serene sort of place. A few newcomers came with us. Very extroverted. Talked all the time, everything needing a commentary. No rest. Other campers had the same approach. Frenzy, busyness, every space filled to the brim with words. So, many words.That's what I ran into with Doyle's work. So many words, so much frenzy and chaos. Well-crafted and designed, to be sure, but everything just kept pouring and pouring over me, no quiet, no rest. Have you ever driven in a rainstorm? Doyle's story is like that. So, so many words pouring at the reader it gets hard to get at the underlying story. This is intentional. Paragraphs go on for 2 pages, maybe more, never a rest. The characters jump from issue to topic, short comments, no marks, just a flurry of interactions, blending into an attempt at broaching inner perceptions, but they are the perceptions of frenzy and chaos.Dana's Two Years, in contrast, had frenzy and work behind the scenes but he was a contemplative writer, thoughtful in reflection. Exposing the reader to reality but bringing in a calm despite the storms. Doyle pours a bucket of water over you in the middle of a hurricane. It's exhausting. But that's why it can also be so exhilarating to other readers. I get it. I get the 5 star reviews. I don't necessarily disagree with them.I just didn't enjoy camping with that frenzy a few years ago and I didn't really enjoy wading into the frenzy of chaotic souls, as more and more words kept pouring over me that I felt like I was drowning in words and asides and paragraphs without a break.Also, I've talked to seagulls and pelicans and so many other birds. I slept on an island where seagulls are born and raised, every square foot except the campsite had a mama and chicks. I heard them talk all day and night. Mark Twain got his bird characters and voices down, he knew the jays for who they are, spot on with the crows. I didn't recognize the birds Doyle portrayed. They were more like puppets, possessed forms with an outside voice. They seemed like they were spirit voices, not the voice of the birds themselves. But again, literary fiction tends to use characters more than portray characters, and Doyle uses his birds to add an aura of seeming mysticism. Which might sound very authentic if you've only heard about people talking with birds.Short review: read an example. If you are drawn in by a page of writing, you'll like the book, it's like that all the way through. If it doesn't stick, it won't. If you're someone who likes to talk a lot about everything you see, the sunset, the waves, the birds flying by all have their own commentary, this will fit. If you like contemplation, quiet, restfulness in a scene seen or described, this will be a frustrating book, full of noise and frenzy. I'm the latter sort
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. A playful voyage through the seas of language By TChris The Plover is a converted trawler skippered by Declan O'Donnell, who departs from Oregon with ample supplies of rice and limes, spare parts and the speeches of Edmund Burke. "Destination? Unknown. Agenda? Don't sink." Declan wants to pursue an "aimless amble on the glee of the sea" but events keep interfering with his lack of ambition. Perhaps Declan will find a reason to chart a course after all.The Plover is a playful voyage through the seas of language. Brian Doyle's inventive prose drifts and floats like Declan's boat, riding the peaks of swells, surging ahead and then meandering as if driven by fickle winds and hidden currents. Owing to Declan's quirky commentary, the story is very funny, but the novel is also a celebration of everything that is natural and glorious: birds, stars, fish, air, islands, sounds, almonds, leaves, storms, scents, dogs, the vast Pacific ... and even people, who always have the potential to be glorious when they stop thinking of themselves "as kings and conquerors" and instead think of themselves as a single link in a vast network.As for the plot ... well, there is one, but, like Doyle's prose, it's meandering and full of detours. Declan picks up a crew of sorts -- an old friend wrestling with his own demons, the friend's disabled daughter, other strays -- and every now and then a mysterious Russian ship makes an appearance, skippered by a man named Enrique who kidnaps his crew members from other ships. In addition to occasional encounters with Enrique, the story follows a couple of other lives that intersect in ways that show us that, for all its size, this is indeed a small world, at least for those who choose to explore it. There are occasional mystical elements to the story that emphasize one of the novel's themes -- there is much in the world that we do not understand and it is arrogant to pretend that we have more knowledge than ignorance.Road novels and their nautical equivalents are usually journeys of self-discovery. The Plover is that, but it is also a journey of other-discovery, as Declan learns that the isolation he craves might not be what he needs. Approaching thirty, Declan is trying to abandon control of his life, to let the sea chart his destiny. Yet as he tries to escape responsibility, he repeatedly finds himself forced into responsible positions. Despite his desire for isolation, he is reminded of the value of others, even those who seem at first blush to have little value, and so comes to recognize his own value. He rescues people and, in the process, is rescued. The Plover is light-hearted but the story, like the Pacific, has remarkable depth.
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