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Gone to Drift
Diana McCaulay
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Description for Gone to Drift
Paperback. Gone to Drift is an award-winning coming-of-age adventure story set in Jamaica. Life gets even tougher for Lloyd, a boy from a fishing village, when his grandfather goes missing at sea. When he sets out to find him he has few friends and makes new enemies. BIC Classification: YFB. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. .
Gone to Drift is an award-winning coming-of-age adventure story set in Jamaica. Life gets even tougher for Lloyd, a boy from a fishing village, when his grandfather goes missing at sea - 'gone to drift' as the local fishers say. Lloyd sets out to find him but no one will help except an uptown girl who studies dolphins, his best friend Dwight and - just perhaps - a mad man called Slowly on a sun-baked beach. Truth? Respect? Survival? Remembering what Maas Conrad had taught him about the old ways, Lloyd discovers that the enemies of the sea - and ... Read more
Gone to Drift is an award-winning coming-of-age adventure story set in Jamaica. Life gets even tougher for Lloyd, a boy from a fishing village, when his grandfather goes missing at sea - 'gone to drift' as the local fishers say. Lloyd sets out to find him but no one will help except an uptown girl who studies dolphins, his best friend Dwight and - just perhaps - a mad man called Slowly on a sun-baked beach. Truth? Respect? Survival? Remembering what Maas Conrad had taught him about the old ways, Lloyd discovers that the enemies of the sea - and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Papillote Press United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780993108617
SKU
V9780993108617
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Diana McCaulay
Diana McCaulay is an award-winning Jamaican writer and a lifelong resident of its capital city Kingston. She has written two acclaimed novels, Dog-Heart (2010) and Huracan (2012). Dog-Heart won a Gold Medal in the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission's National Creative Writing Awards (2008), was shortlisted for the Guyana Prize (2011), the IMPAC Dublin Award (2012) and the Saroyan Prize ... Read more
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