title: Outerbridge Reach
text: # Outerbridge Reach
  
  Outerbridge Reach is a 1992 novel by American novelist Robert Stone. It was his fifth published novel.
  
  ## Plot
  
  The novel follows the story of a copywriter who enters an around-the-world solo boat race, and a filmmaker who makes him the subject of a documentary. Stone reportedly stated that it is partly based on the real-life story of Donald Crowhurst, though the novel does not mention Crowhurst by name. In a note from the author that appears in the first few attached pages preceding the work, Stone states as follows: "An episode in the book was suggested by an incident that actually occurred during a circumnavigation race in the mid-1960s. This novel is not a reflection on that incident but fiction referring to the present day." See Outerbridge Reach, A Novel By Robert Stone.
  
  ## Achievements
  
  ### Awards and honors
  
  Outerbridge Reach was a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee. It was also a finalist for The National Book Award.
  
  ### Commercial success
  
  Stone's novel was also a commercial success, spending nine weeks on the bestseller list in its cloth edition.
  
  