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Caustic, poetic, profoundly moving, Gaffer jackknifes through five hundred years of Newfoundland history, and lunges ahead through fifty more.The young gaffer at its centre is tormented by the death of his father aboard a doomed offshore rig. He refuses to stand idle and watch his outport home collapse. Obsessively pulled to the sea, the boy transforms himself into a creature able to take to the depths of the ocean, and swim freely across tide and time. There he confronts denizens of the island's past. And it is there ...

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Gaffer 1997, Doubleday Canada, Toronto, Canada

ISBN-13: 9780385256674

Trade paperback