Full name: Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn: A Novel

Author: Paul Watkins Year: 1989 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312154189 0312154186

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. Similar books: In the Blue Light of African Dreams by Paul Watkins Cities of the Interior by Anais Nin In Memoriam to Identity by Kathy Acker The Island of the World by Michael D. O'Brien The Valley of Light by Terry Kay White Lightning by Justin Cartwright Sundog by Jim Harrison The Watchers on the Shore by Stan Barstow The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing Pages From A Cold Island by Frederick Exley The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder Mother by Kathleen Norris Very Old Bones by William Kennedy The Big Seven by Jim Harrison Andrew's Brain by E. L. Doctorow Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes