Winner of the 1989 National Book AwardA classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionatestory of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island sNarragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family man, he is also prone to irascible outburstsagainst the people he must work for, now that he can no longer make his living from thesea.Pierce s one great passion, a fifty-foot fishing boat called Spartina, lies unfinished inhis back yard.??Determined to get the funds he needs to buy her engine, he finds himselftaking a foolish, dangerous risk.??But his real test comes when he must weather a storm atsea in order to keep his dream alive.??Moving and poetic, Spartina is a masterly story ofone man s ongoing struggle to find his place in the world.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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