Spartina - Hardcover

Casey, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0370313771 ISBN 13: 9780370313771

Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd, 1990

Synopsis

Written by the author of "An American Romance", this is the story of Dick Pierce - fisherman, husband, father, lover, angry man, and the people who populate his world, the shores and waters of Rhode Island. At the core of this novel are his relationships with his wife, sons and other women.

About this title

About the Author:

John Casey is the author of The Half-life of Happiness, naow available in hardcover from Knopf.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the Inside Flap:

of the 1989 National Book Award

A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionate
story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's
Narragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family man, he is also prone to irascible outbursts
against the people he must work for, now that he can no longer make his living from the
sea.

Pierce's one great passion, a fifty-foot fishing boat called Spartina, lies unfinished in
his back yard.  Determined to get the funds he needs to buy her engine, he finds himself
taking a foolish, dangerous risk.  But his real test comes when he must weather a storm at
sea in order to keep his dream alive.  Moving and poetic, Spartina is a masterly story of
one man's ongoing struggle to find his place in the world.
From the Trade Paperback edition.</

About this edition

• Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0370313771
• ISBN 13: 9780370313771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384