The navigator of New York : a novel
Johnston, Wayne
The navigator of New York : a novel / by Wayne Johnston - 1st ed. - Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada , 2002 - 486 p. ; 25 cm.
The Navigator of New Yorkis set against the background of the tumultuous rivalry between Lieutenant Peary and Dr. Cook to get to the North Pole at the beginning of the 20th century. It is also the story of a young man's quest for his origins, from St. John's, Newfoundland, to the bustling streets of New York, and the remotest regions of the Arctic. Devlin Stead's father, an Arctic explorer, stops returning home at the end of his voyages and announces he is moving to New York, as "New York is to explorers what Paris is to artists"; eventually he is declared missing from an expedition. His mother meets an untimely death by drowning shortly after. Young Devlin, who barely remembers either of them, lives contently in the care of his affectionate aunt and indifferent uncle, until taunts from a bullying fellow schoolboy reveal dark truths underlying the bare facts he knows about his family. A rhyme circulated around St. John's further isolates Devlin, always seen as an odd child who had inherited his parents' madness and would likely meet a similar fate. Devlin, who has always learned about his father through newspaper reports, now finds other people's accounts of his parents are continually altering his view of his parents. Then strange secret letters start to arrive, exciting his imagination with the unanticipated notion that his life might contain the possibility of adventure. Nothing is what it once seemed.
9780676975321
2002071418
Cook, Frederick Albert , 1865 - 1940 ----Fiction
Canadians----New York (State)----Fiction
Discoveries in geography----Fiction
Explorers----Fiction
Orphans----Juvenile fiction
New York (N.Y.)----Fiction
North Pole----Fiction
Historical fiction
PR9199.3.J599 / N38 2002
FIC JOH
The navigator of New York : a novel / by Wayne Johnston - 1st ed. - Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada , 2002 - 486 p. ; 25 cm.
The Navigator of New Yorkis set against the background of the tumultuous rivalry between Lieutenant Peary and Dr. Cook to get to the North Pole at the beginning of the 20th century. It is also the story of a young man's quest for his origins, from St. John's, Newfoundland, to the bustling streets of New York, and the remotest regions of the Arctic. Devlin Stead's father, an Arctic explorer, stops returning home at the end of his voyages and announces he is moving to New York, as "New York is to explorers what Paris is to artists"; eventually he is declared missing from an expedition. His mother meets an untimely death by drowning shortly after. Young Devlin, who barely remembers either of them, lives contently in the care of his affectionate aunt and indifferent uncle, until taunts from a bullying fellow schoolboy reveal dark truths underlying the bare facts he knows about his family. A rhyme circulated around St. John's further isolates Devlin, always seen as an odd child who had inherited his parents' madness and would likely meet a similar fate. Devlin, who has always learned about his father through newspaper reports, now finds other people's accounts of his parents are continually altering his view of his parents. Then strange secret letters start to arrive, exciting his imagination with the unanticipated notion that his life might contain the possibility of adventure. Nothing is what it once seemed.
9780676975321
2002071418
Cook, Frederick Albert , 1865 - 1940 ----Fiction
Canadians----New York (State)----Fiction
Discoveries in geography----Fiction
Explorers----Fiction
Orphans----Juvenile fiction
New York (N.Y.)----Fiction
North Pole----Fiction
Historical fiction
PR9199.3.J599 / N38 2002
FIC JOH
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