e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Call Number
Item Barcode
Bib Number
ISBN/ISSN
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
More Content
More by this author
MacIntyre, Linden.
Subjects
Tsunamis -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Burin Peninsula.
Burin Peninsula (N.L.) -- History -- 20th century.
Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 20th century.
Browse Catalog
by author:
MacIntyre, Linden.
by title:
The wake : the deadl...
by call number:
BOOK CLUB KIT 971.802 M152w
Search the Web
MacIntyre, Linden.
Tsunamis -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Burin Peninsula.
Burin Peninsula (N.L.) -- History -- 20th century.
Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 20th century.
MARC Display
The wake : the deadly legacy of a Newfoundland tsunami (
book
club
kit
- fiction) / Linden MacIntyre.
by
MacIntyre, Linden.
HarperCollinsPublishersLtd, c2019.
Call #:
BOOK
CLUB
KIT
971
.802
M152w
Subjects
Tsunamis -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Burin Peninsula.
Burin Peninsula (N.L.) -- History -- 20th century.
Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 20th century.
URL856
Click here to learn more about borrowing Book Club Kits
URL856
Would you like to see what other titles we have available in Book Club Kits? Click here!
URL856
Holds must be placed via our Request Form
URL856
Information kit for "The wake : the deadly legacy of a Newfoundland tsunami"
ISBN:
9781443452021 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Book
club
kit
: The wake : the deadly legacy of a Newfoundland tsunami
Bookclub
kit
: The wake : the deadly legacy of a Newfoundland tsunami
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
10 copies, xii, 371 p. : ill., maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Holds can be placed via the Request Form on our website. Please include your library card number, the date you would like to pick up the
kit
, the branch location, and list several titles for each date, in case your first pick is not available.
Ideal for your
Book
Club
or Reading Group. This
kit
includes a nylon Halifax Public Libraries bag with 10 copies of Linden MacIntyre's "The wake : the deadly legacy of a Newfoundland tsunami", along with author and title information, and a list of discussion questions. The
kit
is available to borrow for 6 weeks.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"On November 18, 1929, a tsunami struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula. Giant waves, up to three storeys high, hit the coast at a hundred kilometres per hour, flooding dozens of communities and washing entire houses out to sea. The most destructive earthquake-related event in Newfoundland’s history, the disaster killed twenty-eight people and left hundreds more homeless or destitute. It took days for the outside world to find out about the death and damage caused by the tsunami, which forever changed the lives of the inhabitants of the fishing outports along the Burin Peninsula. Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning writer Linden MacIntyre was born near St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, one of the villages virtually destroyed by the tsunami. By the time of his birth, the cod-fishing industry lay in ruins and the village had become a mining town. MacIntyre’s father, lured from Cape Breton to Newfoundland by a steady salary, worked in St. Lawrence in an underground mine that was later found to be radioactive. Hundreds of miners would die; hundreds more would struggle through shortened lives profoundly compromised by lung diseases ranging from silicosis and bronchitis to cancer. As MacIntyre says, though the tsunami killed twenty-eight people in 1929, it would claim hundreds if not thousands more lives in the decades to follow. And by the time the village returned to its roots and set up as a cod fishery once again, the stocks in the Grand Banks had plummeted and St. Lawrence found itself once again on the brink of disaster. Written in MacIntyre’s trademark style, The Wake is a major new work by one of this country’s top writers."--From publisher.
Genre:
Book
Club
Kit
Other authors:
HPL Readers Services
Holds:
2
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Collection Management
Adult Book Club Kit
BOOK CLUB KIT 971.802 M152w
Adult Book Club Kit
Item being held
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.