Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Whale ChaserCondition: NewSubtitle: A NovelEAN: 9780897339230ISBN: 9780897339230Publisher: Academy Chicago PublishersFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/01/2015Description: 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 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.""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. He finds a job 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 an Ahousaht native named Ignatius George, he finds his calling as a whale guide.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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 215mmItem Length: 139mmItem Weight: 439gAuthor: Tony ArdizzoneGenre: FictionItem Width: 20mmRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Whale Chaser
Title: The Whale Chaser
Subtitle: A Novel
EAN: 9780897339230
ISBN: 9780897339230
Release Date: 05/01/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Whale Chaser : a Novel
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Topic: Cultural Heritage, General, Coming of Age
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2015
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 15.6 Oz
Author: Tony Ardizzone
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
