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Wake of the Aspy

A Novel of Northern Cape Breton

by (author) Stewart Donovan

Publisher
Breton Books
Initial publish date
Apr 2013
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781926908168
    Publish Date
    Apr 2013
    List Price
    $17.95

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Description

Teeming with life and remembrance, Wake of the Aspy is a novel of family, passion, and the beauty of memory’s heart. The coastal steamer Aspy connected northern Cape Breton to the world. It was a lifeline, an escape route, and a threat to the old ways. Rooted in a woman’s hard-won independence, Stewart Donovan’s terrific, often hilarious storytelling—the sounds and rhythm and acid wit of daily life—faces with vitality the local life and its encounters with government and a tourism future. Despite expropriations, war, cutbacks and social injustice aimed at driving them out, these are survivors you still might be lucky enough to meet Down North.

About the author

Stewart Donovan has taught in the English Department since 1985. He founded the Irish Studies Program and the Film Studies program. In 1994, he founded the Nashwaak Review, a literary, arts, and culture magazine that he continues to edit. He has published several books of poetry and a novel, Maritime Union: A Political Tale (Non-Entity, 1992).

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