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Title: The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island by Linda Greenlaw ISBN: 0-7868-6677-2 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.69 (42 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Stephen King is not the only writer from Maine
Comment: If you have a hankering to live on a very tiny island off the Maine Coast and earn your living as a lobsterman, then this is the book for you. Linda Greenlaw gives the sense of such a life in this read. All right, unlike fellow Maineite Stephen King, you won't find chilling horror and oppressive suspense. But, you will find funny, gentle, and insightful tales of people who live on this island...stories about Linda's neighbors which often have no bearing on the main plots, like the chapter on Dorothea Dodge. Linda could just has well have left this chapter out of the book, but I am grateful she included it so we could get to meet the postmistress of Isle Au Haut. It's a slice of life in a book filled with enough slices to make a giant loaf of bread. And, unlike Stephen King, the book's main story lines don't come to a neat conclusion at the end of 235 pages. But life doesn't come to a neat conclusion either. And that is what this book is about: Life. Author Greenlaw has the pace, the tone, the solitude, the frustration just right. I hope the issues that could mean the end of her island world eventually get resolved. I hope that her mother surmounts her challenge. I hope Linda doesn't stop at two books. One nit-picking point which, I believe, points out the lack of editorship quality prevalent in the book world today. Here we have a notable publisher, Hyperion, but no one there had the knowledge to point out to Linda that it was Samson, not Goliath, that lost his strength when he lost his hair (editor: see page 206). How that could get by any editor/proofreader is beyond me. Hopefully, they will catch it before further printings.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another from the lady who survived The Perfect Storm
Comment: Remember Linda Greenlaw? The captain of the boat that DIDN'T go down in The Perfect Storm? Here she is again, and she's written a beauty of a book, very different from The Hungry Ocean, her previous book about that nasty storm. Greenlaw has given up swordfishing and lives on a teensy island off Maine's coast where she's a lobster-woman. Only 47 souls live full-time on this island, and she figures she's someway related to more than half of them. This book is a collection of essays, many of which are stand-alone pieces, full of Down East eccentric characters that enrich her life, the island, and the world itself just by the largess of their existence.
I recently participated on a panel with Greenlaw at SF's Books by the Bay and found her to be as open, engaging, self-confident, and funny in person as she is on the printed page.
Read it.
Rating: 4
Summary: lobster chronicles
Comment: Its a good book on tape but the author should have had a professional do the narration. Her spoken communications are not too great.
It would have been easier to follow. This is in reference to the audio tape version.
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Title: Hungry Ocean, The:A Swordboat Captain's Journey by Linda Greenlaw ISBN: 0786885416 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Working on the Edge: Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas by Spike Walker ISBN: 0312089244 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: On Whale Island: Notes from a Place I Never Meant to Leave by Daniel Hays ISBN: 156512345X Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger ISBN: 006101351X Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Out on the Deep Blue: Women, Men, and the Oceans They Fish by Leslie Leyland Fields ISBN: 0312277261 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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