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Watching the road / Lee Stringer.

by Stringer, Lee.

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Killick Press, c2008.

Blue collar workers -- Fiction.

Fishing villages -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.

Life change events -- Fiction.

Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.

9781897174357 (trade pbk.)

167 p. ; 22 cm.

"Every life has a story"--Cover.

"A short story collection"--Cover.

Keepsake -- The plot -- On top and underneath -- The court jester -- Warriors -- A big yellow M -- Saved -- Stanley, the good dart player -- An open closet -- A broken mould -- Mom -- Words -- Watching the road -- What Farrell brought.

"In this impressive collection of fourteen short stories, the poor and blue-collar characters dig only at the surface of their conflicts. That is until they stumble upon a defining moment that heightens their self-awareness, and for better or worse causes them to re-examine who they are in the end, they can only live with the choices they've already made and keep watching the road ahead. They inhabit the tiny outport of Bluff Harbour and the larger, neighbouring places that portray a world that Stringer himself grew up in. It's just close enough to St. John's to catch its ripples of modernization as the last generation of traditional fishermen fade away."--Inside flap.

Short stories, Canadian.

Canadian fiction.

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