Book of the Month–February 2013
February
By: Lisa Moore
The oil rig Ocean Ranger was a mobile off shore drilling unit that was drilling an exploratory well on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland when it sank during a storm on February 15, 1982. All 84 crew members were lost in the disaster.
Lisa Moore uses this real life event as a starting point in February. Cal O’Mara was killed on the Ocean Ranger, leaving behind his wife Helen and their 3 small children. Now 25 years later, Helen still struggles to come to terms with the event, haunted by the memory of her husband, imagining his final moments. Although Helen has survived, she has never managed to move on with her own life and her grief has become her identity.
Also available as:
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Acknowledgements and Awards:
2010: Man Booker Prize (longlist)
2012: Canada Reads (nominee)
Reviews:
The Globe and Mail
The Guardian
The New York Times
About the Author:
Lisa Moore spent her childhood in St. John’s, Newfoundland where she was born in 1964. Her paren'ts were supportive of her hobbies and particularly encouraged her artistic abilities. She studied art at the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design. The desire to tell a story with her painting led to an interest in writing. She studied creative writing at Memorial University where she became a member of the Burning Rock Collective, a group of Newfoundland based writers. She has published two collections of short stories–Degrees of Nakedness in 1995 and Open in 2002. Open was nominated for the Giller Prize. Alligator, her first novel was published in 2005. It was nominated for the Giller Prize, longlisted for the IMPAC award and was the winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Canadian and Caribbean region.
Lisa Moore lives in St. John’s with her husband and children.
Author Interviews:
Maisonneuve
Quill and Quire
Read Alikes:
If you liked February, you may also enjoy:
Other Books by Lisa Moore:
Degrees of Nakedness
• eBook
Open
• eAudiobook
• eBook
Alligator
• eBook
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Other Fiction:
The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler
Emily, Alone by Stewart O’Nan
The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg
Other Non-Fiction:
Heartbroken Open: a Memoir Through Loss to Self-Discovery by Kristine Carlson
The Ocean Ranger: Remaking the Promise of Oil by Susan Dodd
Rig: an Oral History of The Ocean Ranger Disaster by Mike Heffernan
A Widow’s Story: a memoir by Joyce Carol Oates
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