Spartina by John Casey is the Book Club Choice FREE
Spartina by John Casey
Wednesday, March 19th, 6:30 pm to 8:30 p.m.
Location: OECD 2001 L St., Suite 650
Please ask the security guard to direct you to the Book Club.
Bring your own food and drink.
Amazon.com Review
Dick Pierce, fisherman and boat-builder, lives on the Rhode Island shore in a backwater world of salt marshes, alcoholic fishermen, crab boats and old homesteads disappearing under new resorts for inland tourists. A stubborn man thoughtful enough to know that the world is becoming too small for men like himself, Pierce has a mortgage, a family, a "puny income from lobstering" and a dream: to finish the half-built boat in his backyard so he can fish for red crabs out in deep water, make some real money and raise himself and his family up. He is a classic American solitary hero, and Casey knows the sloughs of the Rhode Island shore as well as any fisherman. Spartina won the National Book Award in 1989.