Regional Canada, Manners and customs, Newfoundland and Labrador, Fathers and sons, Families, Novelists, Canadian, Johnston, Wayne, Homes, Intellectual life 

A memoir centred on three generations of the author's own family. It speaks of the hardships, blessings and power of family relationships, of love of country, of exile and of returning home. 

"Charlie Johnston is the famed blacksmith of Ferryland, a Catholic colony founded by Lord Baltimore in the 1620s on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland. For his prowess at the forge, he is considered as necessary as a parish priest at local weddings. But he must spend the first cold hours of every workday fishing at sea with his sons, one of whom, the author's father, Arthur, vows that as an adult he will never look to the sea for his livelihood.
In the heady months leading to the referendum that results in Newfoundland being "inducted" into Canada, Art leaves the island for college and an eventual career with Canadian Fisheries, studying and regulating a livelihood he and his father once pursued. He parts on mysterious terms with Charlie, who dies while he's away, and Art is plunged into a lifelong battle with the personal demons that haunted the end of their relationship.

Years later, Wayne prepares to leave at the same age Art was when he said good-bye to Charlie, and old patterns threaten to repeat themselves."--Jacket. 

Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Wayne Johnston; Wayne Johnston
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Wayne Johnston
ISBN: 0676971466 9780676971460
OCLC Number: 633748452
Description: 272 Seiten : Illustrationen
Responsibility: Wayne Johnston.