While I Was Gone /
Sue Miller.
- 1st ed.
- New York, NY : Penguin Random House, 1999.
- 265 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
"The author's depiction of his 1994 trek on a sailboat named the "Sea Mouse" which begins as a self-pitying escape from a broken heart and a search for masculine identity, but soon becomes a battle between life and death and an end to romantic notions of adventure." (Publisher's Website)