Gaff Topsails - Softcover

GAFF TOPSAILS tells of an Irish Catholic community on Canada's Atlantic coast. It is set over a single summer's day in 1948, yet in the breadth of its imaginative sweep it encompasses the events, both great and small, since the founding of the village in the fifteenth century. Exquisitely written, it is a sharp and moving portrait of six individuals whose experience resonates far beyond the landscape into which they were born.

Patrick Kavanagh was born in 1950 in Newfoundland, Canada. After university in the USA he worked for Amnesty International in Canada. He has also travelled in the far East and assisted in translating Joyce's ULYSSES into Chinese.