Book summaryWhen the 20-year-old protagonist of this novel is expelled from college, he decides to work on a Rhode Island scallop trawler, just Paul Watkins himself did in his youth. |
CALM AT SUNSET, CALM AT DAWNby Watkins, PaulFirst edition
Book desription: Berlin: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. Hardcover First edition Fine in Fine DJ The second novel by this American writer educated in Great Britain and highly praised for his novels about W.W.I and W.W.II. His first novel NIGHT OVER DAY OVER NIGHT was nominated for the Booker Prize and this won the Encore Prize for best second novel. A pristine copy still in publishers shrink-wrap, with "Network- Not For Resale" stamped on the bottom edge, with a printed publicity release for this title laid-in. (Network was H-M's marketing of advanced copies to booksellers of selected titles.)
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