Name: The Whale Chaser: A Novel (en Inglés)
SKU: 61985637
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Author: Tony Ardizzone

portada The Whale Chaser: A Novel (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Academy Chicago Publishers

Autor

Tony Ardizzone

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

384

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780897339230

The Whale Chaser: A Novel (en Inglés)

Tony Ardizzone (Autor) · Academy Chicago Publishers · Tapa Blanda

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The Whale Chaser is the story of Vince Sansone, the eldest child and only son in a large Italian-American family, who comes of age in 1960s Chicago. A constant disappointment to his embittered father--a fishmonger who shows his displeasure with his fists--Vince finds solace by falling in love. Classmate Marie Santangelo, the neighborhood butcher's winsome daughter, entices him with passionate kisses and the prospect of entering her family's business. Yet he pursues Lucy Sheehan, an older girl with a "reputation," who has also been victimized by the adults in her life. When Vince abruptly flees Chicago he ends up in Tofino, a picturesque fishing town on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. First he works gutting fish, then is hired by Tofino's most colorful dealer, Mr. Zig-Zag, and joins the thriving marijuana trade. Ultimately, through his friendship with Ignatius George, an Ahousaht native, he finds his calling as a whale guide. Vince must come to terms with the consequences of his actions as well as his family's version of la storia segreta, the unspoken story of how his grandfather, like thousands of other Italians and Italian-Americans, was evacuated from prohibited zones on the West Coast and, along with hundreds of others, interned in a prison camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Set in the turbulent decades of the Vietnam War and the drug and hippie counterculture, The Whale Chaser is a powerful story about the possibility of redemption.