Downriver drift / Tim Bowling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowling, Tim, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pacific salmon fisheries.

Fraser River Valley (B.C.)--Fiction.

Fraser River Valley (B.C.).

Pacific salmon fisheries--Fiction.

British Columbia--Fiction.

British Columbia.

Fishing villages--Fiction.

Fishing villages.

River life--Fiction.

River life.

Fishers--Fiction.

Fishers.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

254 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Pub., [2000]

Summary:

In the middle of a March night nearly thirty years ago, a heavy fog rolls in off the Gulf of Georgia to smother a small fishing town at the mouth of the Fraser River. Ominous and unsettling, the fog sets the scene for a compelling series of events that will foreveralter the town and the people who live there - especially the Mawsons, one of the many families whose survival depends on the rollercoaster fortunes of BC' s commericial fishing industry. Tense and timely, and set against the backdrop of one of the world' s great rivers, "Downriver Drift" celebrates and mourns a traditional way of life that is rapidly disappearing. Bowling draws on the mysterious, powerful life cycle of the Pacific salmon to create a mythic narrative of human discovery, loss, conflict and forgiveness. With a poet' s eye for detail and a storyteller' s instinct for drama, he paints an unforgettable portrait of west coast fishing village, a world that has never been more stirringly represented in Canadian fiction.

ISBN:

1550172204

OCLC:

45023547