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Fiction Cultural Heritage

Provider's Son

by (author) Lee Stringer

Publisher
Breakwater Books Ltd.
Initial publish date
Sep 2013
Category
Cultural Heritage, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771030182
    Publish Date
    Sep 2013
    List Price
    $19.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771030342
    Publish Date
    Nov 2013
    List Price
    $17.99

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Description

Levi Conley has spent his life making a hard living off the water. Fishing defines who he is. But after being betrayed by his business partners, who are also his brothers, he flees out west for the "big bucks" promised by work as an apprentice welder. The work is well-paid, as promised, but it is also hazardous. And there is the unexpected collaboration with Jon Smith, a young native and contemporary artist; Levi respects his craftsmanship but balks at his politics. A new career in a new place with a new view of Canadian society - Levi must navigate these obstacles and more in charting his new life./P.

About the author

Lee Stringer grew up in the outport village of Little Hearts Ease, in Newfoundland’s Trinity Bay, but has been living in the nearby town of Clarenville most of his adult life. Stringer is a welder who has worked on different large scale projects from the Alberta oil sands to Labrador Iron Ore sites, and like thousands of other Newfoundlanders, commuted by plane for multiple week shiftwork. The vast majority of this novel was written in the late evenings in the work camps of these giant construction sites.

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Editorial Reviews

"Provider's Son will have a particular resonance for anyone with an interest in the giant camp-based construction sites that lure so many Atlantic Canadians west. It is a character-driven novel that captures personal struggle against a backdrop of economic and cultural history." - Rosalie Maceachern, New Glasgow News & Truro Daily News

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