Sointula - Softcover

Gaston, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551928434 ISBN 13: 9781551928432

Verlag: Raincoast Book Dist Ltd, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

<div>Summoned to the deathbed of a long-ago lover, Evelyn is overcome by emotion. Off her medications, she impulsively steals a kayak and embarks on a quest that takes her deep into the Canadian wilderness in order to find her lost son, Tom. On the way to Sointula, a remote fishing village off Vancouver Island, she gains a traveling companion, Peter Gore, a writer working on the quintessential book on the region. Stymied by illness, writer's block, and whiskey, Peter makes an unlikely and unreliable shipmate and paramour. Tom, the survivor of a gunshot wound that slowed his speech and his drug-dealing, finds solace in his isolated life, collecting data for a whale researcher. As Evelyn and Peter approach, Tom waits for the whales' irregular visits to the water's edge. Like the novels of David Malouf and Jonathan Raban, <i>Sointula</i> is a celebration of place, a novel where the landscape comes as fully alive as its memorable characters.</div>

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Raincoast Book Dist Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1551928434
• ISBN 13: 9781551928432
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 452
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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