Blackstrap Hawco: Said to Be About a Newfoundland Family - Hardcover

Harvey, Kenneth J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679314296 ISBN 13: 9780679314295

Verlag: Random House of Canada Ltd, 2008

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Book by Harvey Kenneth J

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Fifteen years in the making, this book is the one Canada’s “heavyweight champ of brash and beautiful literature” was meant to write. An epic masterwork about Newfoundland’s working class, Blackstrap Hawco spans more than a century in gorgeous and widely varied prose, reminding us that even when writing about the degradation of identity and language, Harvey does it magnificently.

Named in a moment of anger, Blackstrap Hawco is heir to an island dominion picked over by its adoptive nation. From the arrivals of the indentured Irish to the Victorian drawing rooms of the English merchants, from the perilous seal hunt to the raucous iron ore mines, from a notorious disaster at sea to the relocation of outport communities, the family legend might be all his people have left to live for. But as Blackstrap Hawco – a novel that will consume you in its dazzling swirl of voices, legends and beautiful hearsay – testifies, a story this haunting, this powerful, might just be enough.

Biografía del autor:

Kenneth J. Harvey’s award-winning and critically acclaimed books are published in over a dozen countries. He lives with his family in a Newfoundland outport.

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• Verlag: Random House of Canada Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0679314296
• ISBN 13: 9780679314295
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 829