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Hull Creek

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Description

Troy Hull has troubles. After the death of his parents, he left college to take up his family's traditional lobster-fi shing life. Now, thanks to poor fi shing, a misguided second mortgage, and the changing nature of his hometown, Troy fi nds himself faced with the loss of that life. As a former highschool classmate turned banker tells him: This isn't a fi sherman's town anymore. Indeed, soaring property values have made it increasingly a haven for land speculators, wealthy summer residents, and tax-sheltered retirees, and Troy's home- just off the harbor on a quiet stretch of Hull Creek-is exactly the sort of property these newcomers covet. So Troy must decide whether to join his friend on an illegal path to solvency or let the straight-andnarrow take him from his beloved home. Hull Creek is a timely tale of change on the coast of Maine and the challenges it brings to the men who still seek their livelihood from the sea.

Product Details

PublisherDown East Books
Publish DateApril 16, 2011
Pages256
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9780892729159
Dimensions8.6 X 5.8 X 0.9 inches | 0.9 pounds
BISAC Categories: Popular Fiction,

Reviews

Energetically written, often funny, satisfyingly moving, Hull Creek is a wonderful novel. -- Elaine Ford
His dialogue has that fine strain of the just, which is always so startling. I think that in Jim Nichols we have one more of a rare breed. -Norman Mailer
Hull Creek is the real world: desparate times, heavy-duty hearts. -Carolyn Chute
Nichols does a persuasive job of portraying a town and lifestyle in flux, and if the marine passages sometimes read like they'd benefit from a translation from the seadogese, they come off as the real deal.-- "Publishers Weekly"

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