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Silent Riders of the Sea: Story of Jack the Miner - Softcover

Fagan, John Gerard

 
9781068678295: Silent Riders of the Sea: Story of Jack the Miner

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In 1930, Jack the miner is grieving the loss of his young son.

In a desperate attempt to escape his misery, he makes the choice to leave.

With a motley crew of Scots, he embarks on Arctic fishing with the promise of a better life.

John Gerard Fagan, the author of the memoir Fish Town, takes us on a ride to the Arctic Sea through Jack's battle for survival on a crammed and gruesome ship and inescapable submission to the cruelty of nature and humankind alike.

In the background, memories of his life as a miner, while a permanent excruciating pain from mourning his own child lingers.

Be ready for a tale of human suffering, violence, and sadness with this story of the hard side of human life.


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John Gerard Fagan is a Scottish writer from Muirhead in the outskirts of Glasgow. He currently lives in Dunbar. He has published short stories, poems, and essays in Scottish, Gaelic and English. His memoir Fish Town, about selling everything he had and buying a one-way ticket to rural Japan, where he lived for seven years, was published in 2021.
Silent Riders of the Sea is his first work of long fiction.

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