When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man - Softcover

Dybek, Nick

 
9781472106575: When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1472106571 ISBN 13: 9781472106575
Verlag: Corsair, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

A community at risk, a family in turmoil, and a young boy becoming a man... A death on Loyalty Island leads a 14-year-old boy to be swept up in a storm of lies and deceit that makes him question his family - and the limits of his own morality. A thrilling American debut.

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Nick Dybek's first novel, WHEN CAPTAIN FLINT WAS STILL A GOOD MAN, was the winner of the 2013 Society of Midland Authors Award, a finalist for the VCU-Cabell First Novelist Award and his been translated into five languages. He's also a recipient of a Granta New Voices selection, a Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award and a Maytag Fellowship. He received a BA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from The Iowa Writers' Workshop. He teaches at Oregon State University.

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'An authentic, atmospheric coming-of-age story with a painful dilemma. A terrific debut.' C. J. Box


The fishing community of Loyalty Island depends on the Gaunt family's fleet for survival. Each winter since he can remember, fourteen-year-old Cal has waved goodbye to his father. A ship's captain, he sets sail for Alaska to trawl for king crab, leaving Cal and his mother behind to await his return from the wilderness thousands of miles north.


But with winter fast approaching, danger creeps closer to home. The owner of the fleet dies, leaving the family business to his son - who seems intent on selling up. With the fishermen's livelihood under threat, an unwitting discovery leads Cal to suspect his parents harbour damaging secrets - how far would his father go to save the fleet from extinction? And what was the true nature of his mother's relationship with Mr Gaunt? His loyalties strained to breaking point, Cal is faced with a devastating moral dilemma - and a terrible choice . . .


When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man hauntingly charts the troubled waters of a community at risk, a family in turmoil, and a young boy becoming a man.


'Dybek brings serious talent to bear.' New York Times


'Finely crafted . . . a taut novel juggling the sometimes conflicting impulses to do the moral thing, and to protect those we love.' Los Angeles Times


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Verlag
Corsair
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1472106571
ISBN 13 
9781472106575
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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