Synopses & Reviews
¿An accomplished sequel [to McCloskey¿s] highly praised Highliners. . . .
Captures the bitter realities and joyful rewards of a fisherman¿s life.¿
¿Publishers Weekly
¿Adrenaline-charged skippers, anxious crewmen,
bleak windswept islands, waiting families, powerful boats¿
Breakers plunges the reader into this world.¿
¿Joe Upton, author of Alaska Blues
William McCloskey¿s best-selling novel Highliners attained cult classic status for its exuberant, authentic portrayal of the commercial fishermen of western Alaska. Breakers continues the story of Captain Hank Crawford, who has come far from his greenhorn days. A skipper with his own crew, he has new responsibilities - a third child, a brand-new boat and house, and plenty of bank loans. It all seems manageable as long as the bountiful hauls of crab and salmon keep flowing in.
Suddenly, trouble hits. Hank¿s boat is damaged; his youngest child falls ill; crab stocks and salmon prices plummet. During a trip to Japan, a troubled Hank is tempted to compromise his business ethics to save his boat, and he takes careless risks that could cost him the wife and family he loves. Breakers is a captivating portrait of a good man at a moral crossroads.
Synopsis
"An accomplished sequel [to McCloskey's] highly praised Highliners. . . .
Captures the bitter realities and joyful rewards of a fisherman"s life."--Publishers Weekly
"Adrenaline-charged skippers, anxious crewmen,
bleak windswept islands, waiting families, powerful boats.
Breakers plunges the reader into this world."--Joe Upton, author of Alaska Blues
William McCloskey's best-selling novel Highliners attained cult classic status for its exuberant, authentic portrayal of the commercial fishermen of western Alaska. Breakers continues the story of Captain Hank Crawford, who has come far from his greenhorn days. A skipper with his own crew, he has new responsibilities - a third child, a brand-new boat and house, and plenty of bank loans. It all seems manageable as long as the bountiful hauls of crab and salmon keep flowing in.
Suddenly, trouble hits. Hank's boat is damaged; his youngest child falls ill; crab stocks and salmon prices plummet. During a trip to Japan, a troubled Hank is tempted to compromise his business ethics to save his boat, and he takes careless risks that could cost him the wife and family he loves. Breakers is a captivating portrait of a good man at a moral crossroads.
Synopsis
Fisherman Hank Crawford must fight to keep his business and family intact in this thrilling sequel to the cult classic Highliners.
About the Author
William McCloskey has been a Coast Guard officer, a merchant seaman, and a crewman on several fishing boats, as well as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun and a staff member at Johns Hopkins University. His other books include Their Fathers' Work: Casting Nets with the World's Fishermen, Fish Decks, Highliners, and Raiders (page 41). His work has appeared in Smithsonian, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, National Fisherman, and elsewhere. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.