| Edition |
First Gallery Books hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 313 pages : illustrations, map, photographs ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Before. The last voyage ; The boat ; The backstory -- Dave Connick. The summer people ; Choate ; Mahoneyville ; Catherine ; Alice ; Cathy -- Mike Stedman. The Stedmans ; Up-island ; Fathers and sons ; Susie -- Montauk the end. The fisherman's special ; Selling a dream ; Golden tilefish -- Michael Vigilant. The dock rats ; The vigilants ; Kim -- After. At sea ; On land ; The memorial ; Lost at sea ; Shipwreck hunters ; The survivors ; Donna ; Secrets and lies ; Pete ; Mary ; Chris. |
| Summary |
"In March of 1984, the commercial fishing boat Wind Blown left Montauk Harbor on what should have been a routine offshore voyage. Its captain, a married father of three young boys, was the boat’s owner and leader of the four-man crew, which included two locals and the blue-blooded son of a well-to-do summer family. After a week at sea, the weather suddenly turned, and the foursome collided with a nor’easter. They soon found themselves in the fight of their lives. Tragically, it was a fight they lost. Neither the boat nor the bodies of the men were ever recovered. The fate of the Wind Blown-the second-worst nautical disaster suffered by a Montauk-based fishing vessel in over a hundred years-has become interwoven with the local folklore of the East End’s year-round population... Amanda M. Fairbanks examines the profound shift of Montauk from a working-class village-“a drinking town with a fishing problem”{ρ“±»ʹωto a playground for the ultra-wealthy, seeking out the reasons that an event more than three decades old remains so startlingly vivid in people’s minds. She explores the ways in which deep, lasting grief can alter people’s memories. And she shines a light on the powerful and sometimes painful dynamics between fathers and sons, as well as the secrets that can haunt families from beyond the grave." -- Amazon. |
| Subject(S) |
Shipwrecks -- New York (State) -- Montauk.
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Fishing boats -- Accidents -- New York (State) -- Montauk.
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Search and rescue operations -- New York (State) -- Montauk.
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Montauk Point (N.Y.)
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| ISBN |
9781982103231 (hardcover) |
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198210323X (hardcover) |
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