Gaff topsails : a novel / Patrick Kavanagh.
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.
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- ISBN: 0670877662
- ISBN: 9780670877669
- Physical Description: ix, 435 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: 1st American edition
- Publisher: New York : Viking, 1998.
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| Subject: | Fishing villages > Fiction. Irish fiction > Canada. Catholics > Fiction. Irish > Canada > Fiction. Newfoundland and Labrador > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Didactic fiction. Pastoral fiction. |
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