Synopses & Reviews
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"Theatre of Fish is peopled with odd characters, both historical and very much alive, who make walk-on appearances in a book rich with bizarre incident and anecdotes." Sarah Hampson, Globe and Mail
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"Must reading for anyone who wants to understand Canada's last province." Yvonne Crittenden, The Toronto Sun
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"[A]s a descriptive writer, a master of the telling observation and the well-chosen epithet, he is in the highest class." Max Davidson, The Daily Telegraph
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"Gimlette is laugh-out-loud funny. His nature is to be thrilled, not put off, by the unruly and the odd." New York Times
Synopsis
Gimlette's journey across Newfoundland and Labrador broadly mirrors that of Dr. Eliot Curwen, his great-grandfather, who spent a summer there as a doctor in 1893. Using Curwen's journal, Gimlette revisits the places his great-grandfather knew of. Full-color photos.