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Spartina: National Book Award Winner Paperback - 1998
by John Casey
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A Narragansett Bay fisherman is obsessed with an unfinished 50-foot boat called SPARTINA. Determined to find the funds to buy her an engine, he takes a foolish risk. But his real test comes when he must weather a storm at sea in order 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.
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Winner of the 1989 National Book Award
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 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 back yard. 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 order 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.
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 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 back yard. 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 order 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.
Details
- Title Spartina: National Book Award Winner
- Author John Casey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1998-04-28
- ISBN 9780375702686 / 0375702687
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.17 x 0.82 in (20.27 x 13.13 x 2.08 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: New England
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Rhode Island
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress subjects Fishers - Rhode Island - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 88045765
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Booklist, 10/01/2004, Page 360
- Entertainment Weekly, 09/04/2015, Page 45
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