The codfish dream : chronicles of a West Coast fishing guide / David Giblin.

Victoria ; Vancouver ; Calgary : Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd., [2018]

©2018

214 pages ; 22 cm

BEIN Zc82 2018gi: Number line on title page verso indicates first printing: "22 21 20 19 18 1 2 3 4 5". Paperbound.

A colourful portrait of life in a fishing village on the BC coast. After spending fifteen years as a fishing guide on the BC coast, David Giblin decided that the offbeat people and places he'd encountered during that colourful period in his life had to be preserved. Like any good fishing story, wherein the fish seem to grow faster after they are dead, the forty-seven interconnected narratives in what eventually became The Codfish Dream took on a life of their own. The result is a series of hilarious, strange, keenly observed, true (or mostly true) stories of Giblin's experiences. These whimisical tales are held together by a thread of international intrigue that affects everyone in the small community of Stuart Island over one eventful summer, when FBI agents visit the island to investigate insider trading. The Codfish Dream is an unforgettable book imbued with an undeniable sense of place and time.

English

January 23, 2020

Canada British Columbia Victoria.