Kimbu, a content worker in Africa's bureacratic system living a decent and conforming life with his lover, Grace, finds refuge from the troubles of his country in the ancient art of storytelling. A first novel.

To Sleep with Ghosts

Literature & Fiction

Michelsen, G.F.

United States

Bantam]

Caught between the increasingly industrialized fishing business and the relentless development of his native Cape Cod, Ollie Cahoon, thirty-six and working a dragger out of Chatham, Massachusetts, feels ever more adrift both at sea and on land. In a desperate effort to compete with the huge, mechanized boats of large-scale fisheries, Ollie goes deeply into debt, yet still finds himself fishing the "hard bottom" rock- and debris-strewn beds avoided by larger boats. When his mate Pig leaves for more lucrative work, Ollie reluctantly hires his brother-in-law, whose innocent but costly mistake only adds to Ollie's troubles. On shore, Ollie faces the disintegration of his marriage and separation from his young son. On top of everything else, Ollie has become the town pariah, since his refusal to sell water rights to land he owns stands in the way of a discount mall that may save the town's faltering economy. Beaten down by his financial, marital, and legal burdens, Ollie is slowly but inexorably driven toward a final desperate stand.

Hard Bottom: A Novel (Hardscrabble Books)

Literary

Univ Pr of New England

Cape Cod commercial fisherman Ollie Cahoon finds himself struggling against the competition by large-scale fisheries and the loss of his partner at sea, and the disintegreation of his marriage and financial downfall on land.

A rich, powerful novel of betrayal and desire follow three people--American Frank Duggan, Hungarian Eva Koszegfalvi, and Ludovic Rohan, a French marine archaeologist--back to Paris eleven years after the tragic event that brought them together for the first time. (General Fiction)

The Art and Practice of Explosion: A Novel

Lorenzo is a seasoned Cape Cod seaman who is called to captain the behemoth grain freighter Pacific Debenture up the east coast of Africa. Mettle's fast-paced story alternates among Cape Cod, the off-Cape islands, and the Debenture's African ports of call. Woven into the narrative are short, highly charged passages relating to corruption in the Chinese steel industry. G.F. Michelsen sustains the adrenaline rush of his seafaring drama with personal conflicts involving Lorenzo's son, a woman they both love back on the Cape, a stowaway on board, and the Pacific Debenture's rebellious officers. Ultimately, Lorenzo's extraordinary "mettle" is forced into a life-or-death confrontation with the Chinese "metal" with shocking results.

Mettle (Hardscrabble Books)

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To Sleep with Ghosts

Hard Bottom: A Novel (Hardscrabble Books)

Hard Bottom: A Novel (Hardscrabble Books)

The Art and Practice of Explosion: A Novel

Mettle (Hardscrabble Books)