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When Tom Vincent's father dies on a foundry floor, the owner offers fourteen-year-old Tom the stewardship of a store on isolated Reach Run Island. Thus begins the odyssey of Tom Vincent - storekeeper, book lover, telegrapher, fisherman, farmer, healer, union organizer, politician and visionary. A Settlement of a Memory is a story of greed, oppression, love, human frailty and, as Stan Dragland observed, it is "...[a] wonderful tale of the inexorable drive to freedom in the teeth of vested interest...." Constructed with passionate attention to detail, A Settlement of a Memory both imagines the…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
When Tom Vincent's father dies on a foundry floor, the owner offers fourteen-year-old Tom the stewardship of a store on isolated Reach Run Island. Thus begins the odyssey of Tom Vincent - storekeeper, book lover, telegrapher, fisherman, farmer, healer, union organizer, politician and visionary. A Settlement of a Memory is a story of greed, oppression, love, human frailty and, as Stan Dragland observed, it is "...[a] wonderful tale of the inexorable drive to freedom in the teeth of vested interest...." Constructed with passionate attention to detail, A Settlement of a Memory both imagines the past and explores the power and limitations of vision to shape the future.
Autorenporträt
Gordon Rodgers holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.His writing has appeared in literary journals and magazines throughout Canada, and has often been anthologized. He is the author of a novella, The Phoenix, and two books of poetry, Floating Houses and The Pyrate Latitudes. A Settlement of Memory is his first novel.