
In the 60s, a young Creusois man from a poor background leaves for Paris to study dentristry (I wish the book kept out of people's rotten mouths!) & falls in with an Ancient Greek theatre company. They try to retrace Ulysses's steps in Ithaca one summer, then decide to build a ship and sail round the world on it. For our young man, that means going back to #Creuse to work as a dentist to earn money to pay for the boat he builds in his barn.
Photo of a caique (the type of boat he's building) from Wikipedia 2y