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Sailing in a Spoonful of Water : A Man, a Family, and a Vintage Wooden Boat

By Joe Coomer

Book information

Publisher
New York : Picador USA
Year
1998
ISBN
0312186975
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
36 MB (37275351 bytes)
Pages
255\272
Time added
2023-12-16 17:33:35
Sailing

Description

Joe Coomer whose fiction includes the beloved New England novel Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God, is a writer of rare warmth, generosity, and insight.Sailing in a Spoongful of Water is his memior of his years spent aboard his vintage motorsailor, Yonder, off the coast of Maine.This is a book that will entrance lovers of the sea, yet more deeply is it's a book about family: In prose rich with humor and awe, Coomer revisits the signal moments in his life and finds in his wife and their parents and grandparents his own safest harbor. The work of a writer whose powers grow with each book, Sailing in a Spoonful of Water is that uncommon thing--a book full of welcome and joy.

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