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- Title Gaff Topsails
- Author Patrick Kavanaugh
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Trade Pape
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date March 1, 1999
- ISBN 9780140281392 / 0140281398
- Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.78 x 5.16 x 0.93 in (19.76 x 13.11 x 2.36 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Penguin, 1999. Very Good. In this ambitious first novel, author Patrick Kavanagh chronicles a single day--June 24, the Feast of Saint John the Baptist--in a remote village in r emote Newfoundland. June 24 is also Sweethearts Day, a day on which young w omen perform rituals as old as the hills to determine whom they will marry. These two celebrations, one Catholic, the other pagan, serve as the twin l odestones around which Gaff Topsails weaves its complex tale. On the one ha nd, there is Father MacMurrough, a restless priest who sees his new parish as a punishment and Kevin, an altar boy troubled by notions of God and sin; on the other there is Mary, a young woman in love with love and Michael Ba rron, a young mute who is starved for it. These characters live out their s ingle day between the twin shadows of two mountains (Gaff Topsails) and an iceberg offshore, their physical isolation a symbol of the spiritual solitu de in which they all exist. Comparisons to James Joyce's Ulysses are, perhaps,…
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New York, New York: Penguin, 1999. Softcover. Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback Moderate shelf wear to edges and corners of cover and spine. Black remainder mark on bottom edge of pages, mark does not bleed onto page faces. Previous retailer stamp on front end page. Binding remains intact and pages are otherwise mostly clean and unb
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