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Spartina / John Casey.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780804153737 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0804153736 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (375 pages)
- Edition: First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Contemporaries, [1998, 1989]
- Copyright: ©1989
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. |
| System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
| Action Note: | digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Awards Note: | National Book Award for Fiction, 1989 |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Fishers > Rhode Island > Fiction. Fishers. Rhode Island. FICTION / General |
| Genre: | Fiction. Electronic books. |
