WHEN CAPTAIN FLINT WAS STILL A GOOD MAN.

Dyek, Nick

ISBN 10: 1594488096 / ISBN 13: 9781594488092

Edité par New York: Riverhead Books, 2012., 2012

A propos de cet article

Octavo, hardcover, minor publishing error on endpaper attachment edge and remainder mark else good in near fine blue pictorial dj. 304 pp. First printing. The author's very highly praised first novel, a coming of age story set in the Bering Sea off Alaska: "Part mystery, part lament, part coming-of-age drama, this novel will stay with you long after you turn the last page. . . . Fascinating and powerful." (Daniel Alarcon) and "Robert Louis Stevenson would be proud of Nick Dybek. . . . He delivers a page-turner full of danger, secrets, and betrayals.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: WHEN CAPTAIN FLINT WAS STILL A GOOD MAN.
• Éditeur: New York: Riverhead Books, 2012.
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1594488096
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781594488092
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Type de livre: Book

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Synopsis

Every fall, the men of Loyalty Island sail from the Olympic Peninsula up to the Bering Sea to spend the winter catching king crab. Their dangerous occupation keeps food on the table but constantly threatens to leave empty seats around it.

To Cal, Alaska remains as mythical and mysterious as Treasure Island, and the stories his father returns with are as mesmerizing as those he once invented about Captain Flint before he turned pirate. But while Cal is too young to accompany his father, he is old enough to know that everything depends on the fate of those few boats thousands of miles to the north. He is also old enough to feel the tension between his parents over whether he will follow in his father's footsteps. And old enough to wonder about his mother's relationship with John Gaunt, owner of the fleet.

Then Gaunt dies suddenly, leaving the business in the hands of his son, who seems intent on selling away the fishermen's livelihood. Soon Cal stumbles on evidence that his father may have taken extreme measures to salvage their way of life. As winter comes on, his suspicions deepening and his moral compass shattered, he is forced to make a terrible choice.

À propos de l?auteur

Nick Dybek is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the recipient of a Hopwood Award for short fiction, a Maytag Fellowship, and a 2010 James Michener- Copernicus Society of America Award. Dybek lives in New York City.