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The Plover: A Novel Extirpation - definition of extirpation by The Free Dictionary extirpate (kstr-pt) tr.v. extirpated extirpating extirpates 1. a. To destroy totally; kill off: an effort to reintroduce wildlife ... Bad Monkey (novel) - Wikipedia Bad Monkey is a 2013 novel by Carl Hiaasen. Plot Summary. In mid-July a sportfisherman off the Florida Keys reels in a severed human arm. The Monroe County Sheriff ... Stranded - definition of stranded by The Free Dictionary It matters not what stranded ships repairing in dry docks I lost myself among what old hulls of ships in course of being knocked to pieces what ooze and slime and ... Turducken - Wikipedia Turducken is a dish consisting of a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck further stuffed into a deboned turkey. Outside of the United States and Canada it is ... Insecticide Resistance Action Committee IRAC The Role of IRAC. IRAC is prolonging the effectiveness of insecticides acaracides and traits by implementing insecticide resistance management strategies countering ... Chidori Narutopedia Fandom powered by Wikia Trivia "Chidori" () can also be translated to "plover". The name Chidori comes from a story about famous samurai Tachibana Dsetsu: Tachibana was in possession ... Finnegans Wake 2.4.383 - Durham Ontario Canada 1 Three quarks for Muster Mark! 2: Sure he hasn't got much of a bark : 3: And sure any he has it's all beside the mark. 4: But O Wreneagle Almighty wouldn ... Brideshead Revisited: A Twitch Upon the Thread The recently completed 11-and-one-half-hour Public Broadcasting System series based on Evelyn Waughs novel Brideshead Revisited proved a smash hit. Blog - Kate Quinn YES! I can finally spill the news: my next book after THE ALICE NETWORK! Sale announced: "Forthcoming THE ALICE NETWORK author Kate Quinn's DARKROOM taking place ... From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront - Gutenberg Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Project Gutenberg eBook Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Illustrated by F. H. Townsend This eBook is for the use of anyone ... Published on: 2015-03-31Released on: 2015-03-31Original language: EnglishNumber of items: 1Dimensions: 8.17" h x .91" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds Binding: Paperback352 pages 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.Another wonder from DoyleBy Julia M. HoskinsTHE PLOVEROregon can be very proud. Brian Doyle has a new book is about travels on a small retrofitted fishing craft, The Plover, named after a nondescript little bird that is nonetheless a tough traveler of great distances. The protagonist sailor Declan, a minor character in Doyle’s earlier Mink River, sets out from the Oregon coast, heading west. Far west.The Plover is poetry masquerading as prose, and delightful hints of literary lingo (and bits of Gaelic and Hawaiian, pidgin and not) find their places in this eccentric sailor’s lengthy yarn. A liar’s lingo: “no thinking on this trip… and don’t get all literary on me either.” Declan declaims that we should say things just once and “let them shimmer there in the air.” Never repeat. This is Doyle turning word handsprings in front of the critics and reviewers and naysayers who say he shouldn’t shouldn’t shouldn’t. For after saying shouldn’t shouldn’t shouldn’t, Declan/Doyle proceeds to do more thinking and repeating and philosophizing than a whole raft of philosophers.All in all, The Plover is a book about story. “We are starving for story, our greatest hunger.” Declan’s friend and sometime crew mate, Piko, is appointed “…captain of the Plover for one hour exactly, and Piko as his first act of command commands that everyone get off the boat for a while, onto the beach, and tell stories, but the stories cannot be about yourself, he says, smiling, they have to be about other people, we are getting all solipsistic and narcissistic on the boat, and stories are the antidote.”Also a passenger on the boat is Piko’s little compromised daughter, Pip, who is compromised because she was run over by the school bus that was supposed to be picking her up for kindergarten. She cannot walk or talk, but she adds an angelic dimension; she communicates with birds and who knows what else. She may be brain damaged, but, then again, maybe not: “I see you smiling Pip. I see you in there.”There is evil in this so lovely world, some accidental, such as Pip’s, and some foul and human evil: a modern pirate ship lurks, a looming tension through much of this fabulous fable. Piko is grabbed away from the Plover for a time by the villainous skipper, then rescued by Declan.The cruel pirate skipper apparently had a harrowing childhood, “some sailed some jailed” and a mother who disappeared: “…her body stayed but the her of her left. Burned on the altar.” (Has anyone anywhere ever written better than that) After an abusive childhood, the skipper wants control. Money is important, and power is important—only because they bring control. And he wants revenge for any slight. Piko’s escape is more than a slight; it’s a humiliation.Declan sought the help of island officialdom to rescue Piko, and there are sadly hilarious litanies of bureaucratic solicitous kindly ineffectiveness, in the midst of which Doyle inserts this sailor’s lament: “Sometimes you can’t tell the rain from the ocean.” Seems to fit the helpless help we know of ubiquitous bureaucracy. We later learn that the bureaucrat attempts to reach his level of incompetence by running for higher political office.Taramauri is a very large island man who is actually a woman and who boards our Plover mysteriously in the night. Two rats and a warbler with a broken wing are along for the ride, as are snails and countless barnacles and other sorts of sea life that cling to boats. All this flora and fauna have opinions, of course, as do the oceans and the sky and the land.In the beginning, before any of these eccentric characters come aboard, a seagull flies above the Plover. Declan talks absentmindedly to the gull, even as he damns it as a flying rat that barfs up fish guts and poops on the cabin roof. The gull looks interested but noncommittal. After many days on the open sea with the gull as his only companion Declan awakens one morning following a furious storm to find that the gull has disappeared. Anyone who has waited until something or someone is gone to realize how much that something or someone is missed will be grabbed by Doyle’s agonizing depiction of the forsaken bereft loneliness that is the ache of all the world’s search for connection.There have been many reviewers and critics and blurblers who compare Doyle to Faulkner and Joyce and Melville and to our own poetic Whitman. I won’t do that sort of thing, other than to say that in the last Brian Doyle book I reviewed for “The Applegater,” Mink River, Doyle channeled the great mystic poet William Blake, but for Plover’s ever-perilous sea journey he often calls on the more pragmatic Edmund Burke for words to rig his jib, to keep him on course. And when that doesn’t quite meet his wordster needs, he ventures outside the lines with, “as old Ed Burke should have said but didn’t.”Feckin’. Leave it to the Irish—and Doyle is as Irish as they come (Irish by way of Brooklyn)—to take that now universal vulgarism and sprinkle it abundantly all naughty-nice. Just as at times Declan gives everyone “the cheerful finger; his usual digitous discourse.” Doyle/Declan, in the guise of Declan’s old feisty father, expends a page or two giving a very un-cheerful finger to the British, who do not rise even to the level of feckless feckin’, as he rails against them for their historical and horrid treatment of the Irish.I revel in the language—and the poignant, picayune, and powerful lessons about life—in this book; I read and re-read many passages. But I press on, just like any feckin’ reader of dime novels in the feckin’ corncrib, to find out if the pirate ship is going to again catch up with the little Plover. And I’m not telling.Highly recommended. This review comment was reprinted (with permission) from my review in "The Applegater" newspaper, Spring, 2014 issue.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.A Modern Day JumbliesBy David R. GrubeBrian Doyle writes like Kurt Vonnegut without the PTSD.I50 years ago Edward Lear wrote a poem, The Jumblies, that began..."They went to sea in a sieve, they did, in a sieve they went to sea." If read as a story it was foolish, if read as a poem it was brilliant. Brian Doyle's new book, The Plover, has many things in common with The Jumblies, and that is our treat. And while it is advertised as a sequel to his fabulous Mink River, it can stand alone as a proem (prose+poem) to life, death, love, adventure, whimsy, and wordsmithing. Declan, the protagonist if there is one, states that "...basically...whatever you are sure of don't be, and as soon as you think you know something for certain, you don't."We also learn that music and singing are panaceas for our lives. This little book can be read again and again, and you will smile each time you do so.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.The Plover by Brian DoyleBy claudia HarperThis book tells the story of an Irishman, Declan, who sails on a very small boat, the Plover, rigged with one sail and meant to accommodate one or two people. His ocean voyage brings him to accommodate more and more passengers through various circumstances, including a huge woman, Taromauri; a man Pipo, and his disabled daughter, Pipa; a minister and singer Danilo; as well as a gull and warbler. His boat is pursued by a boat named the Tanets, captained by Enrique who is a malevolent man. Through these characters the author writes about the nature of people and their changing and endless possibilities. The Pacific Ocean becomes another main character, with its changing and unending possibilities. The implication of his story is the possibility a better world, the connecting of sea, land, sky, and universe as one.What is mesmerizing and delightful it the style of writing Doyle uses—the Irish ear for words and sounds. The book is meandering, looping words and long sentences of rhyme and alliteration in a stream-of-conscious manner. In this way, he describes daily routines, his observations of the sea and weather, his frustrations and pleasures having such a company of sea travelers. The reader comes to know the main character Declan as a grouchy yet generous man, intently independent, but accommodating. He really has a big heart. The book is a book of word-loveSee all 131 customer reviews... Brideshead Revisited: A Twitch Upon the Thread The recently completed 11-and-one-half-hour Public Broadcasting System series based on Evelyn Waughs novel Brideshead Revisited proved a smash hit. Insecticide Resistance Action Committee IRAC The Role of IRAC. 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Bad Monkey (novel) - Wikipedia Bad Monkey is a 2013 novel by Carl Hiaasen. Plot Summary. In mid-July a sportfisherman off the Florida Keys reels in a severed human arm. The Monroe County Sheriff ... Blog - Kate Quinn YES! I can finally spill the news: my next book after THE ALICE NETWORK! Sale announced: "Forthcoming THE ALICE NETWORK author Kate Quinn's DARKROOM taking place ... From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront - Gutenberg Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Project Gutenberg eBook Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Illustrated by F. H. Townsend This eBook is for the use of anyone ... Chidori Narutopedia Fandom powered by Wikia Trivia "Chidori" () can also be translated to "plover". The name Chidori comes from a story about famous samurai Tachibana Dsetsu: Tachibana was in possession ...
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