Gaff topsails : a novel

A day in the life of a fishing village in Newfoundland. The wife of a fisherman rocks a baby while awaiting her husband's return, boys explore an iceberg, a priest recalls an old love and the lighthouse keeper staggers, drunk. It is June 24, 1948, the feast of Jean the Baptist, the bringer of l...

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Main Author: Patrick Kavanagh
Format: Book
Published: New York Viking, 1998
Edition:English : 1st American ed
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