But for Carol, with Vietnam behind him, Manhattan is more than available women, drugs, and the familiar haunts of poets and artists who follow the Beats. It is the landscape for his kind of poetry, for as he puts it, "The city was all around him and everything was for sale, strangers proffering useless items at incomprehensible terms." Carol's walk on the wild side, which includes a brief stay in Bellevue, has all of the intensity of a love-hate relationship that is reminiscent of Henry Miller's "Tropic of Capricorn", but with a noticeable difference, a generational difference. Tindall's Carol Gamewell sees his Manhattan with a poet's eye, blending realistic detail with lines of poetry and passages of dramatic dialogue. As one character describes him, he is a "young poet making a name for himself. Vietnam vet. A splendid existential hero, don't you think?" The Banks of the Sea is Carol's love-hate relationship with Manhattan, its people and streets; it is one man's escape from New York.
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