Blackstrap Hawco
Fifteen years in the making, this book is the one Canada's heavyweight champ of brash and beautiful literature” was meant to write. An epic masterwork about Newfoundland's working class, Blackstrap Hawco spans more than a century in gorgeous and widely varied prose, reminding us that even when writing about the degradation of identity and language, Harvey does it magnificently.Named in a moment of anger, Blackstrap Hawco is heir to an island dominion picked over by its adoptive nation. From the arrivals of the indentured Irish to the Victorian drawing rooms of the English merchants, from the perilous seal hunt to the raucous iron ore mines, f…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-307-37160-7
- EAN: 9780307371607
- Produktnummer: 19890659
- Verlag: Random House of Canada
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 848 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 831 KB
Über den Autor
Kenneth J. Harvey's award-winning and critically acclaimed books are published in over a dozen countries. He lives with his family in a Newfoundland outport.
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