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Robert Wintner

Robert Wintner’s novels and short fiction are literary with a fresh twist, not highbrow but entertaining, often wicked, ironic and insightful. Though literature in the U.S. has struggled against a few currents in recent decades, it endures in the classic vein among a few notable authors, and Robert Wintner is among them…

Whirlaway, a novel

"A daring look behind the scenes of tourism in Hawaii. Passages depicting open-sea crossings are vivid, and the cameos of mainland tourists are dead-on."—Publishers Weekly

As a Maui County Library Hot Pick and Beach Book of the Month Club Main Selection, Whirlaway resounds among charter crews.

NOTE: PG 17, this one, so fasten your seatbelts & prepare for heavy weather. We're going in. Not for the faint-hearted of any age.