The Winterpoor
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In a unique and groundbreaking novel that gives voice to the silent residents of Cape Cod, Murdo Peters, an artist and Cape native, must struggle for his own sanity and freedom as he tries to care for a mentally challenged and neglected boy while also salvaging the floating studio of a long-dead artist, navigating a doomed marriage, and attempting to make his own art. All this on the real Cape, not the sunny beaches and lighthouses of the tourist resort, but the dark Cape of the off-season, its environment stressed by pollution and greedy developers, its year-round residents racked by storms, ...
In a unique and groundbreaking novel that gives voice to the silent residents of Cape Cod, Murdo Peters, an artist and Cape native, must struggle for his own sanity and freedom as he tries to care for a mentally challenged and neglected boy while also salvaging the floating studio of a long-dead artist, navigating a doomed marriage, and attempting to make his own art. All this on the real Cape, not the sunny beaches and lighthouses of the tourist resort, but the dark Cape of the off-season, its environment stressed by pollution and greedy developers, its year-round residents racked by storms, addiction and poverty. As the perils to himself, to the boy, to Daisy (his new love interest) threaten to overwhelm them all, Murdo must draw on his deepest reserves of courage and hope to defeat the demons of his past and defend the people, and the peninsula, he loves.
