false 137549 5 Dick Pierce, fisherman and boat-builder, lives on the Rhode Island shore in a backwater world of salt marshes, alcoholic fishermen, crab boats and old homesteads disappearing under new resorts for inland tourists. A stubborn man thoughtful enough to know that the world is becoming too small for men like himself, Pierce has a mortgage, a family, a "puny income from lobstering" and a dream: to finish the half-built boat in his backyard so he can fish for red crabs out in deep water, make some real money and raise himself and his family up. He is a classic American solitary hero, and Casey knows the sloughs of the Rhode Island shore as well as any fisherman. 132573 28 4 1998 Spartina total:208|5:47|4:97|3:46|2:15|1:3| 208 794 314 30 4 0 false false Tue Apr 28 14:54:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 09:50:40 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 14:54:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Thu Feb 28 14:04:23 -0800 2008 Sat May 02 06:11:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 09:29:34 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 22:04:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 11:52:19 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 11:55:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Jan 17 10:37:20 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 10:39:47 -0800 2009 http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/gre...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 01:46:11 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 02:37:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1996 Mon Feb 16 23:12:27 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 23:14:17 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Dec 25 14:47:40 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 25 15:54:47 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 23:05:23 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 23:12:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Thu Mar 15 08:15:19 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 19 20:26:37 -0700 2007
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