Gaff topsails / Patrick Kavanagh.
Gaff topsails / Patrick Kavanagh.
By
:
Kavanagh, Patrick, 1950-
Publication Date
:
1996
Publication Information
:
Dunvegan, Ont. : Cormorant Books,
Physical Description
:
431 p.
Subject Term
:
Fishing villages -- Fiction.
Irish -- Canada -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
Summary
:
It is June 24, 1948--the Feast of St. John the Baptist, the Bringer of Light, is being commemorated with bonfires ignited on the headlands. Father MacMurrough, newly arrived and desperately lonely, reflects on a failed love affair. Michael Barron, a young mute, falls in love and is puzzled by the way that his life--like the tremendous iceberg he and his friends explore--is turning into a dangerous business. His pious younger brother, Kevin, is terrorized by whispering monsters and imagined sins. Mary, an adolescent dreamer, invokes the pagan superstitions of Midsummer's Day in the hopes of divining her future husband. On a rooftop overlooking the sea, a woman rocks her baby as she waits for her fisherman husband to return home. Meanwhile, Old Johnny, the drunken lighthouse keeper, staggers through the day, haunted by the phantoms of his past. Behind everyone looms the founding father of the village, an Irish castaway, the son of a monk, dead five hundred years. Even in the middle of the twentieth century, something of his spirit survives within every soul in the community.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780920953952
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Gander | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC KAV | |
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Happy Valley - Goose Bay - Melville | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC KAV | |
Holyrood | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC KAV | |
King's Point - Tilley | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC KAV | |
Lewisporte | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC KAV | |
Lourdes | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC KAV | |
Mount Pearl - Ross King Memorial Public Library | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC KAV | |
Port aux Basques | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC KAV | |
Springdale | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC KAV | |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | ADULT FIC NL - BASEMENT | Adult Fiction NL - Basement | FIC KAV | |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | ADULT FIC NL - BASEMENT | Adult Fiction NL - Basement | FIC KAV | rebound |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Fic NL Ref - Cons Rm | Adult Fiction NL Reference - Conservation Room | FIC KAV | |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Fic NL Ref - Prov Coll | Adult Fiction NL Reference Provincial Collection | FIC KAV | |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | ADULT FIC SC - BASEMENT | Adult Fiction Softcover - Basement | FIC KAV | |
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