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Spartina: National Book Award Winner -- John Casey, Paperback

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Cover Image for Spartina: National Book Award Winner -- John Casey, Paperback

Spartina: National Book Award Winner -- John Casey, Paperback

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Winner 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.

Author: John Casey
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 4/28/1998
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.6 lbs
Size: 7.98" H x 5.17" L x 0.82" W
ISBN: 9780375702686

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