Out of print for over seventy years, Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis is being rescued for today''s readers to launch Boiler House Press''s new series, Recovered Books.
Halfway between Honolulu and Panama, a man slips and falls from a ship. For crucial hours, as he patiently treads water in hope of rescue, no one on board notices his absence. By the time the ship''s captain is notified, it may be too late to save him...
Rediscovered in 2009 by Brad Bigelow as part of tireless research for his popular Neglected Books website, Gentleman Overboard has since achieved the status of a cult classic and even become something of an international phenomenon, having seen translations into Spanish, Hebrew, and Dutch. The newspaper Ha''aretz has called it ''A miniature masterpiece that emerged from oblivion''; the Spanish magazine El Cultural dubbed it ''una perlita'': ''a little pearl''.
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