Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn

Name: Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Paul Watkins
ISBN: 9781456124649

Author: Paul Watkins

Narrator: Richard Poe

Unabridged: 9 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/18/2011

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

Paul Watkins spent six years as a crewman on a deep-sea fishing boat. This novel tells his story. The coast of New England: beautiful but savage, where storms can whip up out of nowhere, and the wrecks wash up on the beach. James Pfeiffer, a young college dropout, is initiated into the gruelling world of the trawler boats, where he discovers the thrill and terror of life at sea. Paul Watkins’s gripping novel tells the brutal story of life on the trawlers, the danger, the comradeship and the secrets buried deep beneath the surface. ‘Few contemporary novelists have the ability to grab readers by the throat with such intense storytelling power and not release them until the final page has been turned.’—Sunday Times

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ando

A really interesting novel about the slow and consuming life on board a New England trawler in the late 1980s. The characters weren't hugely described but Watkins allows their dialogue and actions to shape them, and there are some big themes at play - rites of passage, hardship, loss, grief and ulti......more

Goodreads review by Susan

This book was found by me on a lifeguard chair at Wellfleet beach last summer. It is traveling book in which I read it and then go on a website and add my take on it and then I take it to a new spot and leave it for the next reader. Since I am going to California soon, I figured I would leave it the......more

Goodreads review by Jackieoh

I struggled with my rating. I chose 3 stars not because it was a bad book, but because it was not strong. I felt like the insights weren’t very compelling. The ending sort of just ends it’s almost as there should be more pages! All that and still the book was enjoyable. I really liked the character......more