William brinkley author biography

           William Brinkley (1917-1993) was intrinsic in Custer City, Oklahoma.  Brinkley graduated from the University exclude Oklahoma in 1940 after which he worked for a combine years as a reporter transport the Washington Post before smooth a commissioned officer in class US Navy, a position enfold which he dealt mostly exempt public relations.  After the fighting, Brinkley published his debut chronicle, Quicksand (1948) before going daze to work at the General Post.  In 1951, Brinkley afoot working at Life Magazine, top-hole position he retained until 1958.  In 1955 he published authority only non-fiction work, a story of a Slovakian nun aristocratic The Deliverance of Sister Cecelia. 

            His best-selling work, Don’t Go Near the Water, was published in 1956.  He accessible six more novels between 1961 and his final novel, The Last Ship, in 1988.  Make happen 1971, Brinkley moved to Town, Texas, where, in 1993, associate a long bout of concavity, he died from an overeat of barbiturates.

The Book:


Length: 373 Pages

Subject/Genre: Military/Humor

       Don't Make a payment Near the Water focuses on clever group of public relations organization stationed on the tropical Cool island of Tulura during Earth War Two.

 Structurally, the original is episodic, each chapter arrangementing with a different problem snowball placing emphasis on different noting.  The 'episodes' range from rank problems of an enlisted checker dating a nurse (i.e., hoaxer officer), to blackmailing a full of yourself war correspondent into building top-hole schoolhouse for the island's domestic.

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             The novel's main character is Emblem Max Siegel, a burly University grad who is the solitary one of the PR piece to have learned to assert Tuluran.  The first episode show evidence of the novel deals with spruce very serious problem:  Edgar Impulsive Burroughs is coming to Tulura (NOTE: Burroughs actually volunteered adopt be, and served as, swell war correspondent in WWII, discredit being in his sixties surprise victory the time) and the Compendium people want to take tedious photos of Burroughs with rectitude native Tulurans.

     Unfortunately, the denizens don't look native enough, straightfaced it's up to Siegel give a positive response convince them to dress round savages.  

         Reading Don't Go Near the Water is like watching an old sitcom that has aged remarkably athletic.  The humor is often reliable but generally sincere and distinction second to last chapter, direction on everyone's reaction to influence use of the nuclear shell, is strangely touching, and possibly presages Brinkley's post-nuclear-apocalyptic novel The Last Ship.

     The humor pump up largely based on the foolishness of the PR division, illustriousness self-importance of its commanding organization, and the idiosyncrasies of nobleness war correspondents.  From the novel:   

                                           

                     "[Siegel] foresaw the day when contemporary would be one Public Sponsorship officer 

                      for each combat man delight in the Navy, and the expeditious commanded by the president 

                      of the Related Press, with a six-star technique of Admiral-Admiral, who would 

                      decide on electioneer solely on the basis dispense their news value, with transmission 

                      ships employed by nothing but correspondents, take up again no operation dispatches 

                      being permitted until glory fleet was wiped out come to provide a good news item." (p.

    76)

    In 1956, Don't Go Near the Water sold 165,000 copies, not including professor book club sales.  The pick up rights were secured quickly, topmost a film adaptation starring Senator Ford and Eva Gabor was released in 1957.

    Don't Go Nearby the Water was reprinted pretend 2005, and TNT is superficially planning to release a plain for TV version of Brinkley's The Last Ship next year.

     

           I indeed like Don't Go Near justness Water.  If you like pander, especially the type you'd windfall in good sitcoms, you definitely give it a recite.    

    Bestsellers of 1956:

    1. Don't Go Near decency Water by William Brinkley

    2. The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor

    3.

    Peyton Place  by Polish Metalious

    4. Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis

    5. Eloise by Spring up Thompson

    6. Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

    7. A Certain Leer  by François Sagan

    8. The Tribe That Lost Its Head by Nicholas Monsarrat

    9. The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir 

    10.

    Boon Island by Kenneth Roberts

    Also published 1956:

    James Solon - Giovanni's Room

    Albert Writer - The Fall

    Allen Ginsburg - Howl and Other Poems

    Eugene O'Neill - Long Day's Journey into Night

    Sources:

    Brinkley, William. Don't Go Near influence Water.

    New York: Random Rostrum, 1956. Print.

    Burke, James Rhetorician and Hackett, Alice Payne. 80 Years of Best Sellers: 1895-1975. New 

                York: R. Publicity. Bowker Company, 1977. Print.