Author: GASTON, BILL
Title: Sointula
Description: Vancouver BC: Raincoast Books, 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1551927195. Only slight wear.; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 1.5 x 8.5 x 5.9 Inches; 380 pages; Summoned to the deathbed of a long-ago lover, Evelyn is overcome by emotion. Off her medications, she impulsively steals a kayak and embarks on a quest that takes her deep into the Canadian wilderness in order to find her lost son, Tom. On the way to Sointula, a remote fishing village off Vancouver Island, she gains a traveling companion, Peter Gore, a writer working on the quintessential book on the region. Stymied by illness, writer's block, and whiskey, Peter makes an unlikely and unreliable shipmate and paramour. Tom, the survivor of a gunshot wound that slowed his speech and his drug-dealing, finds solace in his isolated life, collecting data for a whale researcher. As Evelyn and Peter approach, Tom waits for the whales' irregular visits to the water's edge. Like the novels of David Malouf and Jonathan Raban, Sointula is a celebration of place, a novel where the landscape comes as fully alive as its memorable characters.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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