The Fetch by Nico Rogers

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The Fetch by Nico Rogers

A book of voices arising out of the lives of people who populated outport Newfoundland.

Drawing on family recollections, interviews with elders and extensive research in archives and regional museums, The Fetch, Nico Rogers' first book, is a brilliant hybrid--neither a novel nor a collection of short stories. This compelling volume of tales and prose poems contains a broad range of characters. There is the slow-witted girl who has lost her mother and now has only the cow named Fatty for a friend; the hard-bitten captain of a schooner in recoil from the ways of his alcoholic father; the child born premature, swaddled in olive oil-soaked linen, placed in a pan and incubated in an oven. And so on, twenty-eight vignettes in all, all tightly written and highly evocative of outport Newfoundland before Confederation. Funny, tragic, and just.

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ISBN 13 9781894078825
ISBN 10 1894078829
Title The Fetch
Author Nico Rogers
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Brick Books
Year published 2010-12-02
Number of pages 104
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.