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Read The Captain and the Glory book reviews & author details and more at … The Captain and the Glory by Dave Eggers review — is Trump beyond parody? Johanna Thomas-Corr. I’m going to try to avoid politics in this review, because it’s too easy to go on a tangent and talk about how horrible, ridiculo - - - When the decorated Captain of a great ship descends the gangplank for the final time, a new leader, a man with a yellow feather in his hair, vows to step forward. When the decorated Captain of a great ship descends the gangplank for the final time, a new leader, a man with a yellow feather in his hair, vows to step forward. Knopf conducted a Q&A with Eggers to talk about this new book, which comes out this November. For the past twenty years he … Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe. Eggers’s latest book, The Captain and the Glory, is a hybrid of political satire and allegory that begins when a new captain, modeled after Trump, takes over a cruise ship called the Glory. Impeachment szn is here, and boy is it depressing! A somewhat heavy-handed satirical work, The Captain and the Glory is narrated in the manner of a children’s story, complete with grisly embellishments. A savage satire of the United States in the throes of insanity, this blisteringly funny novel tells the story of a noble ship, the Glory, and the loud, clownish, and foul Captain who steers it to the brink of disaster. (At least I think it counts as a novella, feel free to politely correct.) It’s hard to satirise the US president but this tale entertains Johanna Thomas-Corr. The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment, by Dave Eggers, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£9.99, 128 pages. 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