The Keeper's Son: A NovelMacmillan, 2007 M04 1 - 352 pages In 1941, Killakeet Island of the wind-swept Outer Banks of North Carolina is home to a tiny, peaceful population of fishermen, clam stompers, oyster rakers, and a few lonely sailors of the Coast Guard. Dominating the glorious, raw beauty of the little island is the majestic Killakeet Lighthouse, which for generations has been the responsibility of one family, the Thurlows. |
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... fishing boats, banana boats, and every other kind of vessel that they were passing through what had been called for centuries the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Below the waves were the skeletons of hundreds of ships put there by sudden ...
... fishing and what they called “wrecking,” the taking of what the sea had stolen from one to give to another. Josh could already imagine how proud he'd be to show the little boat he'd “wrecked” to his father and how jealous the other boys ...
... fish and spit of sand as if she were required to memorize each of them. How happy their sight seemed to make her! As he kept watching her, sideways, glimpses for a moment, then away to come back again, each time longer, the master's ...
... Fish Market ladies. My brother's Fisheye, engine man on the Maudie Jane, that is to say the patrol boat out of Doakes. Paw's dead, drownded a year ago, but before that he was a fisherman, mostly mullet and menhaden when they run.” “Well ...
... fish, and Killakeeters existed only to catch fish, with a nod to culling clams and oysters, and, of course, the keeping of the light. Usually, when sleep wouldn't come, Josh would get up from. CHAPTER 2.
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DEATH I SAID | 143 |
BUT THERE THE SILVER ANSWER RANG | 315 |
NOT DEATH BUT LOVE | 403 |
HISTORICAL NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 421 |