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MICHELSEN, G. F. Hard Bottom: A Novel.
Hardscrabble Books, Hanover: 2001. 1584650826 / 9781584650829 s Softcover. Brand new book.
A Cape Cod commercial fisherman comes to grips with the destruction of both his trade and his environment. 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. "Michelsen's characters are vivid and down-to-earth; his prose is both potent and elegant; and his novel, grappling as it does with the issues of addiction, self-destructive anger, overdevelopment and ecological destruction, and the smothering of small businesses by large corporations, is a multi-layered story of destruction and rebirth that fuses the personal and the political." (starred review)ÑBooklist G. F. Michelsen, a prolific novelist and journalist, has taught writing at NYU and Hunter College. He has also worked as a seaman and officer on coastal freighters in northern Europe; commanded fishing boats out of Falmouth, Chatham, and Sandwich, Massachusetts; and performed numerous blue-collar jobs. The recipient of an NEA fellowship in fiction, Michelsen is the author of To Sleep With Ghosts: A Novel of Africa (1992). Includes two maps.
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MICHELSEN, G. F. Hard Bottom: A Novel.
Hardscrabble Books, Hanover: 2001. 1584650818 / 9781584650812 h Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.
A Cape Cod commercial fisherman comes to grips with the destruction of both his trade and his environment. 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. "Michelsen's characters are vivid and down-to-earth; his prose is both potent and elegant; and his novel, grappling as it does with the issues of addiction, self-destructive anger, overdevelopment and ecological destruction, and the smothering of small businesses by large corporations, is a multi-layered story of destruction and rebirth that fuses the personal and the political." (starred review)ÑBooklist G. F. Michelsen, a prolific novelist and journalist, has taught writing at NYU and Hunter College. He has also worked as a seaman and officer on coastal freighters in northern Europe; commanded fishing boats out of Falmouth, Chatham, and Sandwich, Massachusetts; and performed numerous blue-collar jobs. The recipient of an NEA fellowship in fiction, Michelsen is the author of To Sleep With Ghosts: A Novel of Africa (1992). Includes two maps.
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MICHELSEN, G. F. Mettle: A Novel.
Hardscrabble Books, Hanover: 2007. 1584656476 / 9781584656470 First Edition. h Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.
A breathtaking novel of Cape Cod and the sea. This dazzling new novel once again showcases Michelsen's flair for nuance and narrative. This is the story of Lorenzo, 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 between 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. 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. Michelsen's crisp prose and brilliant, unpredictable plotting will keep you guessing until the last page. This superb novel will stay with you long after you have enjoyed it for the first time. "Michelsen has written deftly about men struggling with their jobs, their marriages, and society in general, and his latest novel addresses similar themes. Lorenzo Fuller is a Cape Cod-based seaman who has assumed command of a huge freighter carrying grain to ports along the east coast of Africa. Two complications surface immediately: the resistance of the crew to Lorenzo's "hard ass" management style and the fact that Lorenzo's son Dowie is a crew member, despite the owners' promise that they would never be assigned the same ship. Their relationship has deteriorated since Lorenzo's divorce from Dowie's mother, exacerbated by their mutual interest in a young woman who has gone missing off Cape Cod, presumed drowned. Michelsen juxtaposes familial flashbacks with passages detailing the ship's ongoing crisis - it is vulnerable to structural stress caused by illegal cost-saving measures taken in the manufacture of its steel girders, which are slowly experiencing metal fatigue and placing them all in danger. Michelsen's strong characterizations of Lorenzo, his son, and several crew members inject heightened pathos into the climactic, though not unexpected, conclusion." ÑBooklist "G.F. Michelsen knows a lot... and his knowledge infuses this fine novel with a powerful sense of reality. Whether he's writing about a mighty ship fighting a rising sea or about the loneliness of winter on Cape Cod, he knows how to take you into his world. And whether his characters are at sea or on land, he knows that his real subject is the human heart, with all its hopes and disappointments. He's a writer's writer, and in Mettle, he's at the
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