num_pages: 338
description: On Canada's Atlantic coast at the edge of the great Newfoundland fishing banks of the 1950s, Sylvanus Now is a handsome and willful fisherman. His youthful desires are simple: he wants a suit to lure a girl—the fine-boned beauty Adelaide—and he knows exactly how much fish he has to catch to pay for it. Adelaide, however, has other dreams. She longs to escape the sea, the fish, and the stultifying community, but her need for refuge from her own troubled family leads her to Sylvanus and life in the neighboring port.Through this story of love, loss, and facing the inevitabilities of life in a floundering community, the sea is a potent presence, modernization ravaging its shores and bringing it to the cusp of cataclysmic change. Ultimately, Sylvanus Now is a story of redemption against all odds "in a world vanished, but brought vividly back to life in Morrissey's caring hands" (Quill and Quire).
language: English
title: Sylvanus Now
titlecomplete: Sylvanus Now (Sylvanus Now, #1)
genres: Fiction, Family, Coming Of Age, Book Club, Canada, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1037
places: Newfoundland and Labrador
series: Sylvanus Now
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
publisher: W. W. Norton  Company