Stealing Through Time: On the Writings of Jack Finney
“Entitled "The U-19's Last Kill," it ran in six consecutive weekly issues of The Saturday Evening Post from August 22, 1959, through September 26, 1959. It was reworked and expanded for book publication that same year as Assault on a Queen.
Part one of the serial begins as Frank Lauffnauer leaves a resort hotel on Fire Island, New York, clearly looking for something. He retraces a route and paddles out a mile into the Atlantic Ocean before diving ninety feet to the bottom and locating a sunk...en submarine from World War One. It is the German sub U-19, in which he rode as a 15-year-old sailor and abandoned near the end of the war. Lauffnauer thinks about bringing the sub back up and making her operational, and sets about enlisting a crew.
The narration then switches from the third person to the first person, as Hugh Brittain tells the reader, "I suppose there are unrecognized moments in everyone's life when enormous events begin with no least hint or indication of it" (40).MoreLess
Part one of the serial begins as Frank Lauffnauer leaves a resort hotel on Fire Island, New York, clearly looking for something. He retraces a route and paddles out a mile into the Atlantic Ocean before diving ninety feet to the bottom and locating a sunk...en submarine from World War One. It is the German sub U-19, in which he rode as a 15-year-old sailor and abandoned near the end of the war. Lauffnauer thinks about bringing the sub back up and making her operational, and sets about enlisting a crew.
The narration then switches from the third person to the first person, as Hugh Brittain tells the reader, "I suppose there are unrecognized moments in everyone's life when enormous events begin with no least hint or indication of it" (40).MoreLess
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