num_pages: 197
description: In eight intertwined tales, White Rock Ways introduces us to life on a small island off the coast of Maine during "the interesting decade between 1960 and 1970." The inhabitants range in age from an elderly, thrifty couple down to a little boy whose mother needs "someone to prize," and include teenagers, fishermen, law officials, young lovers, house-wives and, gradually, newly-arrived summer people. Their stories are often comic, often sad, often dramatic, but no matter what fate brings them, they all agree in admiring and cherishing the enormous granite white rock after which their island is named. All eight stories begin with the article "the," followed by an unusual adjective. The reader will soon discover why the couch is "funeral," the mirror is "stolen" and what a "fancy woman" is.
language: English
title: White Rock Ways
titlecomplete: White Rock Ways
publisher: Long Point Press