{"product_id":"9781443452045","title":"The Wake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Fascinating,\u003cbr\u003einfuriating, eloquent and cautionary.” \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePostmedia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, CBC Books\u003cbr\u003eand \u003cem\u003eMaclean’s \u003c\/em\u003eBook of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the vein of Erik Larson’s \u003cem\u003eIsaac’s Storm\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDead Wake\u003c\/em\u003e comes an incredible true story of destruction and\u003cbr\u003esurvival in Newfoundland by one of Canada’s best-known writers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn November\u003cbr\u003e18, 1929, a tsunami struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula. Giant waves up to three\u003cbr\u003estoreys high hit the coast at a hundred kilometres per hour, flooding dozens of\u003cbr\u003ecommunities and washing entire houses out to sea. The most destructive\u003cbr\u003eearthquake-related event in Newfoundland’s history, the disaster killed twenty-eight\u003cbr\u003epeople and left hundreds more homeless or destitute. It took days for the\u003cbr\u003eoutside world to find out about the death and damage caused by the tsunami,\u003cbr\u003ewhich forever changed the lives of the inhabitants of the fishing outports\u003cbr\u003ealong the Burin Peninsula.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eScotiabank Giller\u003cbr\u003ePrize–winning writer Linden MacIntyre was born near St. Lawrence, Newfoundland,\u003cbr\u003eone of the villages virtually destroyed by the tsunami. By the time of his\u003cbr\u003ebirth, the cod-fishing industry lay in ruins and the village had become a\u003cbr\u003emining town. MacIntyre’s father, lured from Cape Breton to Newfoundland by a\u003cbr\u003esteady salary, worked in St. Lawrence in an underground mine that was later\u003cbr\u003efound to be radioactive. Hundreds of miners would die; hundreds more would\u003cbr\u003estruggle through shortened lives profoundly compromised by lung diseases ranging\u003cbr\u003efrom silicosis and bronchitis to cancer. As MacIntyre says, though the tsunami\u003cbr\u003ekilled twenty-eight people in 1929, it would claim hundreds if not thousands\u003cbr\u003emore in the decades to follow. And by the time the village returned to its\u003cbr\u003eroots and set up as a cod fishery once again, the stocks in the Grand Banks had\u003cbr\u003eplummeted and St. Lawrence found itself once again on the brink of disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in MacIntyre’s\u003cbr\u003etrademark style, \u003cem\u003eThe Wake \u003c\/em\u003eis a major\u003cbr\u003enew work by one of this country’s top writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Linden MacIntyre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101808935061,"sku":"9781443452045","price":4.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/x750_3c875d15-0636-4d83-a196-63049080a814.jpg?v=1776889782","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781443452045","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}