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Sylvanus Now

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On Canada's Atlantic coast at the edge of the great Newfoundland fishing banks of the 1950s, <em>Sylvanus Now</em> is a handsome and willful fisherman. His youthful desires are simple: he wants a suit to lure a girl—the fine-boned beauty Adelaide—and he knows exactly how much fish he has to catch to pay for it. Adelaide, however, has other dreams. She longs to escape the sea, the fish, and the stultifying community, but her need for refuge from her own troubled family leads her to Sylvanus and life in the neighboring port. Through this story of love, loss, and facing the inevitabilities of life in a floundering community, the sea is a potent presence, modernization ravaging its shores and bringing it to the cusp of cataclysmic change. Ultimately, <em>Sylvanus Now</em> is a story of redemption against all odds "in a world vanished, but brought vividly back to life in Morrissey's caring hands" (<em>Quill and Quire</em>).

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Sylvanus Now, Donna Morrissey

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Rok vydání
2006
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Titul
Sylvanus Now
Jazyk
anglicky
Vydavatel
Sceptre
Rok vydání
2006
Vazba
měkká
Počet stran
336
ISBN10
0340822872
ISBN13
9780340822876
Série
Anotace
On Canada's Atlantic coast at the edge of the great Newfoundland fishing banks of the 1950s, <em>Sylvanus Now</em> is a handsome and willful fisherman. His youthful desires are simple: he wants a suit to lure a girl—the fine-boned beauty Adelaide—and he knows exactly how much fish he has to catch to pay for it. Adelaide, however, has other dreams. She longs to escape the sea, the fish, and the stultifying community, but her need for refuge from her own troubled family leads her to Sylvanus and life in the neighboring port. Through this story of love, loss, and facing the inevitabilities of life in a floundering community, the sea is a potent presence, modernization ravaging its shores and bringing it to the cusp of cataclysmic change. Ultimately, <em>Sylvanus Now</em> is a story of redemption against all odds "in a world vanished, but brought vividly back to life in Morrissey's caring hands" (<em>Quill and Quire</em>).