
Hull Creek
Jim Nichols
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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
Publisher | Down East Books |
Publish Date | April 16, 2011 |
Pages | 256 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780892729159 |
Dimensions | 8.6 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"
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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