Picador 1996 Trade Paperback Very good GREAT BOOK! NO SPINE CREASES & MODERATE WEAR ON COVER. LIGHTLY AGED, SMUDGED ON EDGE BUT NO MARKS IN TEXT. From Publishers Weekly: "Sharks are not the only peril faced by James Pfeiffer, age 20, as he works on a scallop trawler off the Rhode Island coast. Treacherous accidents and the risk of drug-running operations cloud the waters; the sting of losing his girlfriend adds bite to the salt air. Watkins, whose critically praised first novel, Night over Day over Night, was published when he himself was his hero's age (he is now 24), has worked on the ships he writes about, and his seafaring adventure is also a coming-of-age novel. James's mixture of love and contempt for his fisherman father Russ, coupled with Russ's fierce desire to see his son make something better of himself, drives the story. Among the crew members are an ex-Green Beret with psychotic tendencies and a hard-drinking former lumberjack. Watkins's spare, whittled-down prose does not buoy up the action, but readers will savor the realistic evocations of life at sea and the portrayal of a particular maritime subculture." Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal: "This novel of a young man's indoctrination into his fisherman father's way of life is engaging, believable, and unromantic. So genuine are the events and dialogue that the book's flaws--melodramatic lines muttered as the father wakes from nightmares, the hero's tritely rendered ...

Trade Paperback. Picador USA 1996. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better. ISBN 0312154186 9780312154189 [US]

New York: Picador USA, Date: 1996. Movie promo foil label on front cover.. 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Octavo. 1996. Picador USA ISBN 0312154186 9780312154189 [US]

Picador, Date: 1996. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1996. Picador ISBN 0312154186 9780312154189 [US]

Picador. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Picador ISBN 0312154186 9780312154189 [US]

Picador, October Date: 1996. Trade Paperback. Used - Very Good. 1996. Picador ISBN 0312154186 9780312154189 [US]

Picador, Date: 1996-10-15. paperback. New. 5x0x8. 1996. Picador ISBN 0312154186 9780312154189 [US]

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ISBN10: 0312154186, ISBN13: 9780312154189, [publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn is a coming-of-age novel of ample beauty, insight, and intensity. Defying the wishes of his family, James Pfeiffer--twenty years old and newly expelled from college--heeds the call of the open waters off the Rhode Island coast. Joining the crew of a broken-down scallop trawler, James seeks to learn the ways of fishermen like his father. Through endless days of exhausting labor in the company of dangerous men, James learns shockingly brutal and unexpectedly sobering lessons. But as James discovers the secrets of his motley crewmembers, he realizes that every fisherman has his own reasons to love the sea, in all its promise and treachery.
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