Blackstrap Hawco

by Kenneth J. Harvey

Book Overview

Fifteen years in the making, this book is the one Canada's "heavyweight champ of brash and beautiful literature" was meant to write. An epic masterwork about Newfoundland's working class, Blackstrap Hawco spans more than a century in gorgeous and widely varied prose, reminding us that even when writing about the degradation of identity and language, Harvey does it magnificently.

Named in a moment of anger, Blackstrap Hawco is heir to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067931430X
• ISBN13: 9780679314301
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Vintage Books Canada
• Length: 848 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"