Description
From the author of The Outport Millionaire comes another collection of stories, essays and vignettes set in outport Newfoundland
The Ocean at My Door contains some of the best stories and essays from Newfoundland’s favourite storyteller. With humour and insight, Ron Pollettt has created some of the most memorable gems in Newfoundland literature.
The stories include:
The Ocean at My Door
Rum in the Pudding
Uncle Ben’s Adventure
There’s No Place Like an Outport
The Tongue that Never Told a Lie
Includes Ron Pollett’s Christmas classic of the young boy Ernie Tarn in “The Dicky-Bird Dish,” and the all-time favourite, “The Cat with the Yaller Face.”
Seventeen short stories in all!
About the author
Ron Pollett was born in New Harbour, Trinity Bay, in 1900. He became a school teacher at the age of sixteen but after three years he left to work at Grand Falls. In the early 20’s he immigrated to the United States and worked as a printer in New York until his death in September, 1955. He visited his native Newfoundland frequently and enjoyed going fishing and trouting as well as renewing acquaintances with old-time fishermen. He wrote on Newfoundland’s colourful outport life, a subject which was dear to his heart and which he handled with much skill and insight.