Blackstrap Hawco
Subtitle: said to be about a Newfoundland family
By: Kenneth J. Harvey
Publisher: Random House Canada
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Toronto]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 829
ISBN-13: 9780679314295
Subjects: Fiction; History; Authors, Canadian (English)
Description: Named in a moment of anger, Blackstrap Hawco is heir to an island dominion picked over by its adoptive nation. From the arrivals of the indentured Irish to the Victorian drawing rooms of the English merchants, from the perilous seal hunt to the raucous iron ore mines, from a notorious disaster at sea to the relocation of outport communities, the family legend might be all his people have left to live for. But as Blackstrap Hawco - a novel that will consume you in its dazzling swirl of voices, legends and beautiful hearsay - testifies, a story this haunting, this powerful, might just be enough.