The Wooden Nickel by Carpenter, William
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780316089746
- Book Title
- Wooden Nickel : a Novel
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Features
- Reprint
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Family Life, General, Literary, Action & Adventure
- Item Weight
- 10.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316089745
ISBN-13
9780316089746
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2283660
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wooden Nickel : a Novel
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
Family Life, General, Literary, Action & Adventure
Features
Reprint
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Funnyand profane. . . . This is a modern story, with [a] painful lesson about whathappens to rugged traditionalists, like Lucky, who try to fight change.Melville would have approved of this novel's oily, splintered texture andboisterous dialogue, the best of which is too salty to quote here."-- Sally Eckhoff , New York Times Book Review, "InLucas 'Lucky' Lunt, William Carpenter . . . has concocted a character so real,you can smell the chum wafting off his oilskins. And as crusty andunreconstructed as he is, you have to love him. . . . Characters of Lucky'ssort existed long before Melville's narrator first told us to call him Ishmael.Nothing would be easier, then, than to render this story as a bobbing buoy lineof clichรฉs. But Carpenter succeeds grandly in sidestepping stereotype, using aninimitable voice to spit a tale suffused with crabby humor, wry social critiqueand, yes, pathos. Much of his success lies in how he gets so many things right. . . . It's obvious. . . that the author has done his homework. . . . Morerewarding than these slice-of-life details is Carpenter's pitch-perfect ear foridiomatic speech patterns and smutty turns of phrase. . . . A character likeLucky has a special resonance these days. The Wooden Nickel seems to besuggesting that, despite his perseverance, Lucky and men like him may soon beas endangered as their over-fished catch. Carpenter gets a lot of things right;on this point, let's hope he's wrong."-- Mike Miliard , Boston Phoenix, "Moveover Richard Russo, there's an impressive new chronicler of the lives ofhard-edged working men on the scene.... Carpenter's prose is strong and sinewy:the Maine fishing community is evoked with pungent realism, and the charactersare memorable in their attempts to eke out an existence in a harsh environment.This is a fully engaging story that creates a powerful portrait of a manstruggling to make sense of a world that seems rigged against him."-- Publishers Weekly, "Combiningthe artistic precision of poetry and the narrative power of an epic, WilliamCarpenter has written a classic American novel about one lobsterman's furiousbattle against the laws of land and sea. . . . The white-hot center of thisliterary tour de force is Lucky Lunt. . . . Like Captain Ahab, Lucky Lunt soonrenounces his family, his community and the laws of nature to catastrophicresults. Like Melville, Carpenter has drawn the searing image of a man and away of life with no place left to go."-- John Robinson , Maine Sunday Telegram, "Powerful writing. . . . The Wooden Nickel will be the punchiest, raunchiest Maine coast lobstering novel you'll encounter in a long while."-- Michael Kenney , Boston Globe, "Uncompromising.... The author, who is also an award-winning poet with three published collections, twines image and idea with impressive skill.... Carpenter draws a richly detailed portrait of a coastal Maine community. His descriptive writing, especially when Lucky takes the Wooden Nickel out on its rounds, is piquant and evocative, and there's always added pleasure in reading a novel when you learn the particulars of a trade. Carpenter... also has a wonderful ear for the language of his reagion.... The Wooden Nickel earns some comparisons to Annie Proulx's The Shipping News. "-- Porter Shreve , Chicago Tribune, "To author the human story on the page, fearlessness is a requirement. Because William Carpenter is ferociously, magnificently, and absolutely fearless, the people who walk the pages of this book and The Wooden Nickel, which rides the truly living sea in this book... they live. I will never forget Lucky Lunt and his loved ones."-- Carolyn Chute , author of The Beans of Egypt, Maine, and Snow Man, "Underthe pen of a skilled writer like William Carpenter, Lucky leaps to life and youbuy his story-hook, line, and sinker. . . . A funny, funny book. . . . A goodstoryteller-and Carpenter is a good one for sure-can lead readers on anincredible adventure where everything that happens is breathtaking andsurprising yet, in retrospect, absolutely inevitable. In Lucky's life, onething leads to another, and hard choices are forced unceasingly upon ourunlucky but resilient hero. . . . Carpenter's writing is vivid and lively,filled with earthy dialogue and hilarious descriptions. He creates charactersof memorable dimension and puts them into situations that spring to life on thepage."-- Helen Parramore , Tampa Tribune & Times, "In Lucas 'Lucky' Lunt, William Carpenter . . . has concocted a character so real, you can smell the chum wafting off his oilskins. And as crusty and unreconstructed as he is, you have to love him. . . . Characters of Lucky's sort existed long before Melville's narrator first told us to call him Ishmael. Nothing would be easier, then, than to render this story as a bobbing buoy line of clichรฉs. But Carpenter succeeds grandly in sidestepping stereotype, using an inimitable voice to spit a tale suffused with crabby humor, wry social critique and, yes, pathos. Much of his success lies in how he gets so many things right. . . . It's obvious. . . that the author has done his homework. . . . More rewarding than these slice-of-life details is Carpenter's pitch-perfect ear for idiomatic speech patterns and smutty turns of phrase. . . . A character like Lucky has a special resonance these days. The Wooden Nickel seems to be suggesting that, despite his perseverance, Lucky and men like him may soon be as endangered as their over-fished catch. Carpenter gets a lot of things right; on this point, let's hope he's wrong."-- Mike Miliard , Boston Phoenix, "William Carpenter has a great ear for the talk of Maine lobstermen and a great eye for the things (boats, motors, guns, lobster) with which they live. Lucky Lunt, the hero of The Wooden Nickel, is superbly competent with these things but otherwise he's wired for trouble. The story rips along full-throttle. Just one of the many pleasures is that in spite of Lucky's bad moves you're still rooting for the guy."-- John Casey , author of Spartina and The Half-Life of Happiness, "ArchieBunker would look like Ralph Nader alongside the robust, profane life force whoeasily dominates this zesty, entertaining novel by the Maine poet and author....Lucky is a terrific creation... and the unquenchable source of malevolently funnyone-liners that can drop you dead in your tracks.... An insouciant antipastoralas bracing and bitter as a January nor'easter. Don't miss it."-- Kirkus Reviews, "Carpenter'sprose matches the harsh, gritty life of the seaman. The language is strong, andthe gruff characters are more likely to accept the ancient laws of the sea thanthe laws of humans. . . . This realistic portrayal of a harsh life in a closedsociety holds rewards for those willing to look below the surface."-- Debbie Bogenschutz , Library Journal, "[Carpenter's] instrument is the salty, sullen, irrepressibly profane voice of its protagonist Lucas 'Lucky' Lunt. . . . Mr. Carpenter keeps a nice balance between the consistent focus on Lucky's abrasive sensibility and the novel's busy plot. . . . There are delights aplenty distributed among Lucky's rude pronouncements. . . . There's a subtle patter of imagery working throughout as well. Mr. Carpenter finds fresh and precise metaphors perfectly suited to Lucky's limited though by no means simple thought processes. . . . The novel is a hoot with a heart, a raucous portrayal of working-class life in extremis and of a possibly dying way of life that isn't going anywhere without one hell of a struggle. Mr. Carpenter's Lucky Lunt is an irresistibly vivid character-a more than worthy companion to the salt-of-the-earth types who've been appearing in the recent northeastern regional fiction of . . . Carolyn Chute, Maine's Richard Russo, and New Hampshire's Ernest Hebert. You might not want to invite Lucky to your next book club meeting. But a few bracing, expletive-filled hours aboard The Wooden Nickel with him just might do your own heart a modest world of good."-- Bruce Allen , Washington Times
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Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Edition Description
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Synopsis
Lucky Lunt is an endangered species: a third generation lobsterman who works the same Maine waters as his father and grandfather in a boat called The Wooden Nickel . He can identify every car in town from the sound of its engine, but his world is changing faster then he can fathom. His wife has become an artist, selling sea-glass sculptures to tourists. His daughter is bound for college, while his son has turned angry and lawless. Lucky's own heart is failing him, too. An operation has kept it ticking, but he can't run the boat alone any more. As the spring lobster season opens, the only deckhand Lucky can find to help load his traps is Ronette, the not-quite-divorced wife of the local lobster wholesaler. When the two make it out to the fishing grounds, someone else's buoys are bobbing in his ancestral waters. Before he knows it, Lucky is in a lobster war and has abandoned all the rules: family, health, finance, even the rules of the sea that have guided him throughout his life. As waves of trouble turn into a flood tide, Lucky's pride propels him into an epic confrontation with his enemies and a rogue whale-a battle his unreliable heart may not survive. The Wooden Nickel is a classic story of a man raging against a changing world, full of pathos and comedy. It is a remarkable novel by a writer with a powerful, distinct, and original voice., Lucky Lunt is an endangered species: a third generation lobsterman who works the same Maine waters as his father and grandfather in a boat called The Wooden Nickel. He can identify every car in town from the sound of its engine, but his world is changing faster then he can fathom. His wife has become an artist, selling sea-glass sculptures to tourists. His daughter is bound for college, while his son has turned angry and lawless. Lucky's own heart is failing him, too. An operation has kept it ticking, but he can't run the boat alone any more. As the spring lobster season opens, the only deckhand Lucky can find to help load his traps is Ronette, the not-quite-divorced wife of the local lobster wholesaler. When the two make it out to the fishing grounds, someone else's buoys are bobbing in his ancestral waters. Before he knows it, Lucky is in a lobster war and has abandoned all the rules: family, health, finance, even the rules of the sea that have guided him throughout his life. As waves of trouble turn into a flood tide, Lucky's pride propels him into an epic confrontation with his enemies and a rogue whale -- a battle his unreliable heart may not survive. The Wooden Nickel is a classic story of a man raging against a changing world, full of pathos and comedy. It is a remarkable novel by a writer with a powerful, distinct, and original voice.
LC Classification Number
PS3553.A7622W66 2003
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