| The Fisherman's Quilt | 
 enlarge | Author: Margaret Doyle
Publisher: iUniverse
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1246217
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 289
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0595311393
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780595311392
ASIN: 0595311393
Publication Date: October 1, 2004
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Product Description
In "The Fishermans Quilt," young Nora Hunter arrives in Kodiak Alaska with her fisherman husband and new baby. She brings her first, fancy quilt to Alaska, along with an idealistic vision of life on Americas last frontier. Nora struggles with the loneliness, danger, ambition, and mistrust inherent in her life, by making quilts celebrating weddings and births, new homes and fresh starts, and finally, her own strength. Nora Hunter knows what it is to desire something passionately that the world seems to conspire to prevent her from obtaining. She is fortunate enough to realize that she has the strength and the imagination to adapt. In the face of abandonment and rejection, she finds something to offer her children and her community. "The Fishermans Quilt" poignantly describes the longing, questioning, and celebration of this modern-day Everywoman. At once an epic, love story, adventure, and a portrait of late twentieth century America marriage, "The Fishermans Quilt" shows that Noras adventure has been in her discovery that courage has an everyday currency.
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 Is That It? April 9, 2007
After reading other reviews, I thought I would take this with to read on a recent trip to Kodiak. I remembered positive remarks, and a review mentioning that it kept getting better, so even though it was choppy reading and didn't hold my interest, I continued reading. I kept waiting for something to happen, and it really didn't. Too true to life, I guess, it was just like reading a somewhat depressed person's diary and hoping things will get better, but it just ending typically. Not really a great escape or source of hope or inspiration. The worst was that it enticed me with talk of quilts and quilting, but it really had hardly any of that at all. How can you title a book, "The Fisherman's Quilt" and then not have quilting as a theme? If you try hard enough you can see how Nora metaphorically thought of herself as her husband's quilt, and that idea could be taken further, but the actual physical quilt and process of quilting did not play a big enough part of the story to tie the idea to the story.
 A great read! July 17, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I picked up this book at a local folklife festival. I don't normally enjoy novels and had some doubts about this one. But I was looking for a good read and books are a weakness for me! I was not disappointed in the least! This was a great read that just got better and better! I have passed the book on to a friend who spent the first years of her married life in Alaska with her husband. Both were trying to make some money. She said it is so amazingly depicting of their own life up there. I found myself absorbed in trying to decide whether the marriage of Matt and Nora would make it or not. And whether it truly should. I wonder if Nora's husband ever woke up to what he lost! For his sake, I hope so! I absolutely did not find that the people in Kodiak were depicted in a negative light. I highly recommend this book! It reads like a memoir. Who can go wrong in writing their own thoughts and feelings and experiences. I hope this book has a sequel. I'd like to know the rest of the story!
Great Read May 24, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Fisherman's Quilt was a great read. I have a long-standing interest in Alaska and I thought the story gave me an enjoyable and very believable glimpse of what it would be like to live in a small Alaskan fishing town - the adventure and beauty but also the isolation and loneliness. In the book, I felt I met a real person, Nora, a romantic who gradually comes to terms with the hard realities of adult life as she struggles to raise a family in Alaska. I do not generally read novels but the book rang so true it was like reading non-fiction.
The ring of truth March 29, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A wonderful story. I enjoyed Nora's pluck, her marvelous internal monologues that had such immediacy about them; her crazy friends, her busy and boisterous little children. Having travelled and lived in remote places, I identified with Nora's sense of isolation; desperation, and "war-time" humor. Margaret Doyle's words have the ring of truth. I loved this book.
Carol Nickisher, author of Riding the Reef - a Pan American Adventure, with Love.
 Poor Representation February 28, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I believe Ms Doyle made a poor representation of the people of Kodiak, as I had lived there myself for many years and coincidentally, during the very time she writes of. It was a pretty thin veil of so many wonderful people that I know well. Kodiak's people are perhaps a different breed of individual to some but, they are honest, friendly, hard working and helpful. One doesn't make enemies very easily there but I can see that Ms Doyle perhaps left a "bad taste" to many. Her bitterness at the sacrifice that the many "real" women make daily was apparently one she couldn't cut. And, why use Quilt Shops to sell your book? It is so misleading!
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