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Gaff topsails : a novel / Patrick Kavanagh.
LIBRA Special PR9199.3.K388 G34 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kavanagh, Patrick, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fishing villages--Newfoundland and Labrador--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Fishing villages.
- Catholics--Newfoundland and Labrador--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Catholics.
- Irish--Newfoundland and Labrador--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Irish.
- History.
- Newfoundland and Labrador.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Didactic fiction.
- Pastoral fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 435, 9 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin, 1999.
- Summary:
- A day in the life of a fishing village in Newfoundland. The wife of a fisherman rocks a baby while awaiting her husband's return, boys explore an iceberg, a priest recalls an old love and the lighthouse keeper staggers, drunk. It is June 24, 1948, the feast of Jean the Baptist, the bringer of light, and come nightfall bonfires will light the headlands.
- Notes:
- Includes "Penguin readers guide to Gaff topsails."
- ISBN:
- 0140281398
- 9780140281392
- OCLC:
- 41295073
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