by Benjamin Wood · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405975247
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Seascraper is a mesmerising portrait of a young man confined by his class and the ghosts of his family's past, dreaming of artistic fulfilment. Twenty-year-old Thomas Flett lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, Northern England, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the drizzly shore to scrape for shrimp, and spends the afternoon selling his wares, pining for his neighbor, Joan Wyeth, and playing songs on his guitar. At heart, he is a folk musician, but this remains a private dream.
When a mysterious American arrives in town and enlists Thomas’s help in finding a location for his next movie, Thomas is shaken from the drudgery of his days and begins to see a different future. Haunting and timeless, Seascraper tells the story of a quiet existence upturned over the span of one day, and a young man striving to achieve fulfilment far beyond the world he knows.
