Spartina

<b>Winner of the 1989 National Book Award</b><br><br>A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, <b>Spartina</b> is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family man, he is also prone to irascible outbursts against the people he must work for, now that he can no longer make his living from the sea.<br><br>Pierce's one great passion, a fifty-foot fishing boat called <i>Spartina</i>, lies unfinished in his back yard. Determined to get the funds he needs to buy her engine, he finds himself taking a foolish, dangerous risk. But his real test comes when he must weather a storm at sea in order to keep his dream alive. Moving and poetic, <i>Spartina</i> is a masterly story of one man's ongoing struggle to find his place in the world.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>