ISBN: 0-88739-311-X
362 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 6/2002
Paperback Original
Price: $16.95
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Spirit of the Cove, The
Rick Danielson
This is the story of the birth, struggle for survival, and by-the-bootstraps prospering of a fictional American town, Anton's Cove on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. The strength-spirit-of this place is in its citizens' fiercely individualistic yet also communal values. Anton's Cove embodies American mythology, people at their most resilient and resourceful. Catalyzed by Grady, a sculptor and rebellious ex-drunk, and hippie wife Linda, the town triumphs over government bureaucracy and thrives-until publicity and media hype heralds the town's dissolution. The sad irony of Anton's Cove: the seeds of its destruction are in its success.
These original occupants of the land had been puzzled for more than 150 years. They looked upon themselves as human beings, yet these ugly, hairy people who trickled and then stampeded in from the east insisted on calling them "Indians." Not only had they been transformed into Indians, they were further described as the "Tslingsit Tribe," being identified with an obscure leader who made the mistake of preserving the life of the town founder, Anton Klette.
Bio: RICK DANIELSON, from the Pacific Northwest, has a keen, grass roots understanding of the interaction between governmental policies and the rural communities they effect.
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