Sylvanus Now A Novel

"Breathtakingly beautiful."--Alistair MacLeod On Canada's Atlantic coast at the edge of the great Newfoundland fishing banks of the 1950s, "Sylvanus Now" is a handsome and willful fisherman. His youthful desires are simple: he wants a suit to lure a girl--the fine-boned beauty Adelaide--and he knows exactly how much fish he has to catch to pay for it. Adelaide, however, has other dreams. She longs to escape the sea, the fish, and the stultifying community, but her need for refuge from her own troubled family leads her to Sylvanus and life in the neighboring port. Through this story of love, loss, and facing the inevitabilities of life in a floundering community, the sea is a potent presence, modernization ravaging its shores and bringing it to the cusp of cataclysmic change. Ultimately, "Sylvanus Now" is a story of redemption against all odds "in a world vanished, but brought vividly back to life in Morrissey's caring hands" ("Quill and Quire").Morrissey, Donna is the author of 'Sylvanus Now A Novel', published 2006 under ISBN 9780393328691 and ISBN 0393328694.