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Waterline
Paperback, 272 pages, HarperCollins, List Price: $14.99 | purchase
Book Summary
After his wife dies and the shipyards are nearly vacant, Mick Little, an ex-shipyard worker, must leave his old life behind and start over again—a long journey, fraught with grief and uncertainty, which takes him from the Glasgow shipyards to the streets and riversides of London. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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- Shipbuilding,
- Married people,
- Fiction
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Fired And Foreclosed: Unemployment Lit
Of course, as Ross Raisin reminds us in his new novel, Waterline, the "Great Recession" isn't just an American horror story. Raisin is a phenom in Great Britain, having won awards aplenty for his debut novel Out, Backward. In Waterline he tells the evocative story of Mick Little, who has just lost his wife, Cathy, to cancer. The cancer may have been caused by the asbestos Mick tracked into their little house every evening after his shift ended at the Glasgow... more
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