The Clinker - Roger Vaughan Carr
Product Information The Clinker - Roger Vaughan Carr
Was there a malignant force in the Tambourine Reef drawing ships to their destruction? Were the ghosts of drowned sailors still calling for help after a hundred years?
The Clinker had gone on the Tambourine once before - or her timbers had, when they were part of the hull of the ill-fated Ohio a century or more ago. Was the reef now trying to draw the Clinker onto its jagged teeth, as if claiming its own?
But Rust knew nothing of that. He had left America to visit his great-grandparents, and to experience something of the idyllic life that both his father and his grandfather had known as young boys here in Austalia. Now the dream was turning sour.
True, the wide waters of the Inlet were as he had pictured them. So were the swamps, the beaches, the salt-greyed house where Ma and Pa, his great-grandparents, had always lived. And so were Ma and Pa, at first.
But Maggie was different, and Shaun and Tony were an unexpected nuisance; and then there was the strange way Pa was behaving. Rust soon began to wish he had never come at all...
This hardcover volume was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1989. The book itself has a little rubbing on the corners while the dustjacket has even less wear.
Price: $20.00
