A Stretch on the River
- ISBN-10
- 1618865552
- ISBN-13
- 9781618865557
- Category
- Mississippi River
- Pages
- 182
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1950
- Publisher
- eNet Press
- Author
- Richard Bissell
Description
A Mississippi river yarn about the crew of a towboat at the beginning of WW II. Bissell tells it like it is. This is how they talked, this is how they lived, and sometimes, eloquently and tenderly, this is how they died. Unerringly and with great authenticity, Bissell tells the story of the river and why it grips the men who love it.
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