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Saltwater Cowboys
Dayle Furlong
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Description for Saltwater Cowboys
Paperback. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
After generations of prosperity in the mining town of Brighton, Newfoundland, Jack and Angela McCarthy find themselves jobless. In order to keep his family together, Jack accepts a job in a gold mine in the wilds of northern Alberta.
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Arriving in Foxville, the McCarthys find themselves resented, bullied, and cast as outsiders. When Jack’s best friend, Peter, is swindled out of his savings and resorts to stealing from the mine, his attempts at reversing their fortunes thrust both families into even deeper torment.
A powerful, poetic novel dealing with the effects of ... Read more
After generations of prosperity in the mining town of Brighton, Newfoundland, Jack and Angela McCarthy find themselves jobless. In order to keep his family together, Jack accepts a job in a gold mine in the wilds of northern Alberta.
2015 DEWEY DIVA PICK
Arriving in Foxville, the McCarthys find themselves resented, bullied, and cast as outsiders. When Jack’s best friend, Peter, is swindled out of his savings and resorts to stealing from the mine, his attempts at reversing their fortunes thrust both families into even deeper torment.
A powerful, poetic novel dealing with the effects of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dundurn Group Ltd Canada
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781459721975
SKU
V9781459721975
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Dayle Furlong
Dayle Furlong is originally from Newfoundland and currently lives in Toronto. She studied Literature and Fine Arts at York University, and Creative Writing at Humber College, where she was granted an Award of Merit Fellowship for Fiction from the Summer Literary Seminar in 2011. Her first book of poems, Open Slowly, was called “reminiscent of ’70s feminist-Atwood” by Governor General’s ... Read more
Reviews for Saltwater Cowboys
[Furlong] has an eye for the natural world and a talent for probing the emotional dimensions of physical sensation.
National Post
Although mainly set in the 1980s, the “Saltwater Cowboys” storyline remains more contemporary and timely than ever.
The Telegram
Furlong makes us feel the bite of barely thwarted poverty and the mounting inevitability that at ... Read more
National Post
Although mainly set in the 1980s, the “Saltwater Cowboys” storyline remains more contemporary and timely than ever.
The Telegram
Furlong makes us feel the bite of barely thwarted poverty and the mounting inevitability that at ... Read more