E-book

February [electronic resource] / Lisa Moore.

ISBN: 9780887849008 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0887849008 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)
Publisher: Toronto [Ont.] : House of Anansi, 2009

Moore, Lisa, 1964- (Author).

Summary:

In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's Day storm. All eighty-four men aboard died. February is the story of Helen O'Mara, one of those left behind when her husband, Cal, drowns on the rig. It begins in the present-day, more than twenty-five years later, but spirals back again and again to the "February" that persists in Helen's mind and heart. Writing at the peak of her form, her steadfast refusal to sentimentalize coupled with an almost shocking ability to render the precise details of her characters' physical and emotional worlds,