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Poor Man's Rock

Bertrand William Sinclair

Casa editrice: e-artnow

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'Poor Man's Rock' is a heart-warming story of a Canadian soldier who has just returned from the Great War. Back in his native place, he decides to run a fishing business. What ensues is a story of hope, love, deceit, and second-chances. The author, Bertrand William Sinclair, was a Canadian writer, known for writing a series of western fiction novels. He has written over 60 stories and 11 novelettes. Before writing about the fishing industry, he worked as a commercial fisherman and then wrote Poor Man's Rock. In writing about the outdoors, Sinclair was also influenced in his portrayals by Jack London
Excerpt:
"On an afternoon in the first week of November, 1918, under a sky bank full of murky cloud and an air freighted with a chill which threatened untimely snow, a man came rowing up along the western side of Squitty Island and turned into Cradle Bay, which lies under the lee of Point Old. He was a young man, almost boyish-looking. He had on a pair of fine tan shoes, brown overalls, a new gray mackinaw coat buttoned to his chin. He was bareheaded. Also he wore a patch of pink celluloid over his right eye. When he turned into the small half-moon bight, he let up on his oars and drifted, staring with a touch of surprise at a white cottage-roofed house with wide porches sitting amid an acre square of bright green lawn on a gentle slope that ran up from a narrow beach backed by a low sea-wall of stone where the gravel ended and the earth began."
Disponibile da: 08/04/2022.
Lunghezza di stampa: 231 pagine.

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