Sentences with phrase «human cargo across»

Ponicsan also wrote the novel on which the 1973 film The Last Detail was based, about two Vietnam servicemen carrying human cargo across northeastern states in the grip of winter.

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Tinti is a writer gifted beyond her years, both literary in her perceptions — «the sailboat passed a cargo ship the length of an aircraft carrier, stretching across the surface like a giant guarding the edge of the world» — and possessing a thoroughgoing comprehension of the human condition, our sometimes desperate search for love and family, the rage we often feel as we stumble through our ignorance and past our fear to confront our mortality.