Mortal LeapA merchant seaman is the sole survivor when his ship is sunk in a battle in the South Pacific. Badly burned, he is stripped of every shred of identity and cast into the sea, naked, faceless, nameless. Rescued and lying in a Pearl Harbor hospital, he is mistakenly identified as the missing Lt. Ben Davenant by Davenant's wife. In a moment, the man decides to go along, to take on Davenant's identity, to return with her to California and take on his life.

Ian Stuart shows us a touching scene after spontaneous tears in Waterstones

and Big Men Speaking to Little Men (Salmon

and four all-too-human souls whose struggles defined an era

darkly funny

An endless chase of the next girl

10/11 Spring 2001/ Summer 2001

"Hilarious

Maram al-Massri (Syria)

An intelligent and superior example of a genre whose popularity shows no signs of abating

a remote island in the Pacific Ocean

or the world generally

to concepts of trust and value