Happiness of FishBreakwater Books, 2007 - 255 pages On a snowy winter night, Gerry Adamson hides from his family in a laid-up sailboat. Pushing sixty, holed-up with a laptop, he's trying to make a novel out of thirty-odd years of compromises and betrayals that have seen him go from youthful erratic passion to late-middle-aged dithering. He's making one last effort to make it mean something. |
Contents
Section 1 | 17 |
Section 2 | 34 |
Section 3 | 52 |
Section 4 | 64 |
Section 5 | 76 |
Section 6 | 81 |
Section 7 | 91 |
Section 8 | 97 |
Section 10 | 132 |
Section 11 | 146 |
Section 12 | 156 |
Section 13 | 168 |
Section 14 | 206 |
Section 15 | 214 |
Section 16 | 239 |
Section 9 | 122 |
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