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Gaffer

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Caustic, poetic, profoundly moving, Gaffer jackknifes through five hundred years of Newfoundland history, and lunges ahead through fifty more.

The young gaffer at its centre is tormented by the death of his father aboard a doomed offshore rig. He refuses to stand idle and watch his outport home collapse. Obsessively pulled to the sea, the boy transforms himself into a creature able to take to the depths of the ocean, and swim freely across tide and time. There he confronts denizens of the island's past. And it is there he is granted a view of its blackened future.

In his finest book to date, Kevin Major spins the language and legends of Newfoundland into a rawly distant narrative.

Language: English

Pages: 202

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Doubleday Canada

Release: June 16, 1997

ISBN: 0385256671

ISBN 13: 9780385256674

Gaffer

0/5 ( ratings)

Caustic, poetic, profoundly moving, Gaffer jackknifes through five hundred years of Newfoundland history, and lunges ahead through fifty more.

The young gaffer at its centre is tormented by the death of his father aboard a doomed offshore rig. He refuses to stand idle and watch his outport home collapse. Obsessively pulled to the sea, the boy transforms himself into a creature able to take to the depths of the ocean, and swim freely across tide and time. There he confronts denizens of the island's past. And it is there he is granted a view of its blackened future.

In his finest book to date, Kevin Major spins the language and legends of Newfoundland into a rawly distant narrative.

Language: English

Pages: 202

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Doubleday Canada

Release: June 16, 1997

ISBN: 0385256671

ISBN 13: 9780385256674

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