| Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn Contributor(s): Watkins, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312154186 ISBN-13: 9780312154189 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1996 Annotation: Aware of the dangers of working at sea, James Pfeiffer's parents want desperately to keep their son on shore. But James finds a job on a scallop trawler andis drawn to sea. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Sea Stories |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 4.6" W x 9.23" (0.79 lbs) 288 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn is a coming-of-age novel of ample beauty, insight, and intensity. Defying the wishes of his family, James Pfeiffer--twenty years old and newly expelled from college--heeds the call of the open waters off the Rhode Island coast. Joining the crew of a broken-down scallop trawler, James seeks to learn the ways of fishermen like his father. Through endless days of exhausting labor in the company of dangerous men, James learns shockingly brutal and unexpectedly sobering lessons. But as James discovers the secrets of his motley crewmembers, he realizes that every fisherman has his own reasons to love the sea, in all its promise and treachery. |
Contributor Bio(s): Watkins, Paul: - Paul Watkins is the author of many novels, including The Forger, Archangel, and Night over Day over Night, as well as the memoir Stand Before Your God. He attended the Dragon School at Eton and Yale, and currently lives with his family in Princeton, New Jersey, where he teaches at the Peddie School and Lawrenceville Academy. |