Overview
GONE ALASKA is a coming of age novel about a young man named Adam Porter who leaves his North Idaho home for adventure on a fishing boat called the Western World that trolls the waters of Southeast Alaska. Philip Swanson, the skipper of the Western World, is one of the novel's antagonist. Adam is thrown into a world that is completely foreign to him. His coming of age is not only his understanding of the world of men and women, but of his place in the natural world as well, and the damage humankind is doing to the natural environment they work in.Dave Barrett lives and writes out of Missoula, Montana. His fiction has appeared most recently in Hobart, Midwestern Gothic, Quarter After Eight and Whiskey Island. He teaches writing at Missoula College and is at work on a new novel.
- | Author: Dave Barrett
- | Publisher: Adelaide Books
- | Publication Date: Jul 11, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 166 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1950437787
- | ISBN-13: 9781950437788
