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Genre/Form: | Fiction Sea fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Casey, John, 1939- Spartina. New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 1998, ©1989 (OCoLC)894796974 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Casey |
ISBN: | 0375702687 9780375702686 |
OCLC Number: | 39903210 |
Awards: | National Book Award for Fiction, 1989 |
Target Audience: | Young Adult. |
Description: | 375 pages ; 21 cm. |
Responsibility: | John Casey. |
Abstract:
A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family man, he is also prone to irascible outbursts against st the people he must work for, now that he can no longer make his living from the sea. Pierce's one great passion, a fifty-foot fishing boat called Spartina, lies unfinished in his backyard. Determined to get the funds he needs to buy her engine, he finds himself taking a foolish, dangerous risk. But his real test comes when he must weather a storm at sea in oreder to keep his dream alive. Moving and poetic, Spartina is a masterly story of one man's ongoing struggle to find his place in the world.
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