”A SPANKING, salty tale written
with a sure knowledge of the sea and the Grand Banks and as currently topical
as the day's newspaper," said the New
York Sun when this "hard driving tale of trawlers and prowling
U-boats" was published early in 1943, and Harry Hansen in the New York World-Telegram called it a
"thriller of the frost water." The book was among the out-standing
fiction successes of the spring of 1943, and was the Literary Guild selection
for the month in which it was published. United Artists will produce it as a
movie.
The Gaunt Woman is the
story of the adventures of a Gloucester skipper on the trail of a wolf-pack of
Nazi U-boats and their mother ship the Gaunt
Woman. It is Edmund Gilligan's fourth novel. Mr. Gilligan writes from
first-hand knowledge of the sea, Gloucester fishing schooners and U-boats. He
was in the Navy in the First World War on a sub-chaser working with Canadian
mine sweepers and destroyers in Newfoundland waters, and during the last year
Mr. Gilligan has made several trips on Gloucester fishing boats to the Grand
Banks, has seen U-boats and the result of their depredations on the fishing
fleet. Part of The Gaunt Woman was
written on one of these voyages.
This special edition of THE GAUNT WOMAN by
Edmund Gilligan has been made available to the Armed Forces of the United
States through an arrangement with the original publisher, Charles Scribner's
Sons, New York.
Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., a
non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime
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