Safe From the Sea

Review originally published August 2012 The storm raged on the open water of Lake Superior that fateful night in November when the ore boat, Ragnarok, went down. Only three men survived, and Olaf Torr was only one of those whose lives would be forever haunted by the memories. The unspoken story o......more

Safe from the Sea is small in scope – a mere 241 pages – but it is gripping in its messages and intensity. It begins simply: Olaf Torr, an officer and one of three survivors of a Lake Superior ore ship dubbed the Ragnarok that was lost in 1967, is dying. He reaches out to his estranged son Noah, who......more

Safe from the Sea, by Peter Geye, 2009. The central historical event of Peter Geye’s first novel is the sinking of the oreboat Ragnarok during a hellish November storm on Lake Superior. The story unfolds during an estranged son and father’s week together on the North Shore of Superior, as winter rol......more

I liked it OK, but felt it was a little milquetoast in style, a little too much on the heart plucking. One of those book that makes you think "I could of written that", in fact I was thinking it was some fledging author's first novel, or at least he reached down into the pile of his manuscripts for......more