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Redburn

Herman Melville

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1849
Pages
Pages 350

The only map the boy has is his dead father's guidebook to Liverpool, the margins still carrying the old man's pencilled notes from a journey made a generation before, and not one street of it holds: the hotels gone, the docks rearranged. That is Wellingborough Redburn's whole education in a single image, the world his father knew refusing to be handed on.

You can not spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.
Redburn, Herman Melville

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