Gaffer : a novel of Newfoundland / Kevin Major.
Gaffer : a novel of Newfoundland / Kevin Major.
By
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Major, Kevin, 1949-
Publication Date
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1997
Publication Information
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Toronto : Doubleday Canada,
Physical Description
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202 p. : ill., map.
Subject Term
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Young adult fiction.
Time travel -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
Summary
:
Gaffer is a surreal, haunting novel of a young man tied to a place, but able to explore the depths of the sea and swim freely across the tides of time. Living in a dying outpost town and haunted by the memory of his father's death aboard the doomed Ocean Ranger, Gaffer is obsessively drawn to the sea. Miraculously, he is transformed into a fish-like creature capable of taking to the ocean, where he experiences episodes from Newfoundland's past, and is granted a dark vision of its future. With a master's grace, Kevin Major weaves the distinctive language of Newfoundland into a narrative that is both poetic and profoundly moving.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780385256674
General Note
:
Map on endpapers.
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number |
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Bay Roberts | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Buchans | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Burgeo | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Cartwright | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Corner Brook | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Fogo Island | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Gambo | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Grand Falls-Windsor - Harmsworth | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Happy Valley - Goose Bay - Melville | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Holyrood | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Musgrave Harbour - John B. Wheeler Public Library | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Pasadena | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Placentia | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Port au Port | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Rocky Harbour | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Fic NL Ref - Cons Rm | Adult Fiction NL Reference - Conservation Room | FIC MAJ |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Fic NL Ref - Prov Coll | Adult Fiction NL Reference Provincial Collection | FIC MAJ |
St. John's - Marjorie Mews | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Stephenville - Kindale | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Trepassey | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Twillingate | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Wabush | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |
Woody Point | YA Fic NL | YA Fiction NL | FIC MAJ |