Sylvanus Now by Donna Morrissey
The stunning new novel from award-winning author Donna Morrissey. A powerful tale of two people caught in the upheaval of personal, social and global change of unimagined proportions. Sylvanus Now is a young man of great charm and strength, most at home when fishing the great Newfoundland fishing banks. His world is simple, his desires direct. He wants Adelaide, a fiery beauty from the next village, but Adelaide swore she would never love a fisherman. She hates the sea, the fish, the prying eyes of an isolated 1950s community. But as their love for each other grows into marriage, the more they seem linked to the rhythms of the sea - a sea that takes as well as gives, something that Sylvanus knows all too well having lost both his brother and father to the depths. Worse is to come. Looming at the edge of the horizon are menacing congregations of giant fishing trawlers that threaten to suck not only fish from the sea but the life from a community.
"- 'SYLVANUS NOW is a powerful, moving evocation of lives and times long gone but close enough to be in living memory, a world vanished but brought vividly back to life in Morrissey's caring hands' - Quilt and Quire - 'This is a novel about change - change on the land, and on the sea, and within the human heartIt is about redemption, and it is breathtakingly beautiful. There are detailed descriptions in this novel which are dazzlingly authentic. Both physical and emotional landscapes are charted with exquisite care. A splendidly unique novel' - Alastair MacLeod"
Donna Morrissey left The Beaches, a small outport on the west coast of Newfoundland where she was born, when she was sixteen. She studied at Memorial University in St. John's and lived in various parts of Canada before settling in Halifax, where she now lives.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780340822869 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340822864 |
| Title | Sylvanus Now |
| Author | Donna Morrissey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2005-11-07 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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