{"product_id":"the-wake-the-deadly-legacy-of-a-newfoundland-tsunami-isbn-9781443452038","title":"The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Fascinating,\u003cbr\u003einfuriating, eloquent and cautionary.” \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePostmedia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, CBC Books\u003cbr\u003eand \u003cem\u003eMaclean’s \u003c\/em\u003eBook of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the vein of Erik Larson’s \u003cem\u003eIsaac’s Storm\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDead Wake\u003c\/em\u003e comes an incredible true story of destruction and\u003cbr\u003esurvival in Newfoundland by one of Canada’s best-known writers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn November\u003cbr\u003e18, 1929, a tsunami struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula. Giant waves up to three\u003cbr\u003estoreys high hit the coast at a hundred kilometres per hour, flooding dozens of\u003cbr\u003ecommunities and washing entire houses out to sea. The most destructive\u003cbr\u003eearthquake-related event in Newfoundland’s history, the disaster killed twenty-eight\u003cbr\u003epeople and left hundreds more homeless or destitute. It took days for the\u003cbr\u003eoutside world to find out about the death and damage caused by the tsunami,\u003cbr\u003ewhich forever changed the lives of the inhabitants of the fishing outports\u003cbr\u003ealong the Burin Peninsula.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eScotiabank Giller\u003cbr\u003ePrize–winning writer Linden MacIntyre was born near St. Lawrence, Newfoundland,\u003cbr\u003eone of the villages virtually destroyed by the tsunami. By the time of his\u003cbr\u003ebirth, the cod-fishing industry lay in ruins and the village had become a\u003cbr\u003emining town. MacIntyre’s father, lured from Cape Breton to Newfoundland by a\u003cbr\u003esteady salary, worked in St. Lawrence in an underground mine that was later\u003cbr\u003efound to be radioactive. Hundreds of miners would die; hundreds more would\u003cbr\u003estruggle through shortened lives profoundly compromised by lung diseases ranging\u003cbr\u003efrom silicosis and bronchitis to cancer. As MacIntyre says, though the tsunami\u003cbr\u003ekilled twenty-eight people in 1929, it would claim hundreds if not thousands\u003cbr\u003emore in the decades to follow. And by the time the village returned to its\u003cbr\u003eroots and set up as a cod fishery once again, the stocks in the Grand Banks had\u003cbr\u003eplummeted and St. Lawrence found itself once again on the brink of disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in MacIntyre’s\u003cbr\u003etrademark style, \u003cem\u003eThe Wake \u003c\/em\u003eis a major\u003cbr\u003enew work by one of this country’s top writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“MacIntyre’s novelistic style and the stories of men, dogs, work, mining, liquor, church, politics, and fate are reminiscent of \u003cem\u003eNo Great Mischief\u003c\/em\u003e, by another Cape Bretoner, Alistair MacLeod.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“MacIntyre is a fine writer.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlistair MacLeod, author of No Great Mischief\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“MacIntyre is a masterful storyteller.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“MacIntyre can build suspense from thin air.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaclean's\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“MacIntyre isn’t just another face and larynx from television [but] an honest-to-God writer.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Beautifully written, both descriptively and analytically precise, and a significant contribution.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElliott Leyton, anthropologist and author of Dying Hard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“MacIntyre is a superb writer, and his book’s two major set pieces . . . have moments of heart-stopping narrative . . . Yet it’s the subtle, nuanced intertwining of family and larger story that gives \u003cem\u003eThe Wake\u003c\/em\u003e its power.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaclean's\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"MacIntyre does more than relate this powerful story. An award-winning novelist, he raises the book to the level of literature.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Wake is a story of ecological calamity, economic depravity, political indifference and the banality of evil. For generations, the hardy citizens of Newfoundland’s southern shore, where Linden MacIntyre was born, have met unfathomable loss and hardship with enduring bravery. MacIntyre’s deep and abiding compassion for these people shines through in this masterful work.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Sakamoto, author of Forgiveness: A Gift from My Grandparents, winner of CBC Canada Reads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“For generations, the hardy citizens of Newfoundland’s southern shore, where Linden MacIntyre was born, have met unfathomable loss and hardship with enduring bravery. MacIntyre’s deep and abiding compassion for these people shines through in this masterful work.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Sakamoto, author of Forgiveness: A Gift from My Grandparents, winner of CBC Canada Reads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fast-paced and near-unstoppable, \u003cem\u003eThe Wake\u003c\/em\u003e is the kind of book you can’t put down. Linden MacIntyre’s relentless voice just won’t let you stop reading, deftly showing how man and nature stacked the dice against the people of small-town Newfoundland, who suffered their own form of near-Biblical plagues. \u003cem\u003eThe Wake\u003c\/em\u003e will leave you shaken and angry at the ease at which real, live people can become the pawns of careless powers.”    - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRussell Wangersky, author of Whirl Away, finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Burning Down the House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fast-paced and near-unstoppable, \u003cem\u003eThe Wake\u003c\/em\u003e is the kind of book you can’t put down. 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