When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man

Name: When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Nick Dybek
ISBN: 9781624064623

Author: Nick Dybek

Narrator: Nicholas Dressel

Unabridged: 7 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 04/02/2013

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Every fall, the men of Loyalty Island sail from the Olympic Peninsula up to the Bering Sea, to spend the winter catching king crab. To Cal, Alaska remains as mythical and mysterious as Treasure Island. But while Cal is too young to accompany his father, he is old enough to know that everything depends on the fate of those boats thousands of miles north. He is also old enough to wonder about his mother's relationship with John Gaunt, owner of the fleet. Then Gaunt dies suddenly, leaving the business in the hands of his son. Soon Cal stumbles on evidence that his father may have taken measures to salvage their way of life. As winter comes on, he is forced to make a terrible choice.

About Nick Dybek

Nick Dybek is a recipient of a Granta New Voices selection, a Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, and a Maytag Fellowship. He received a BA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He teaches at Oregon State University. He is the author of When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man and The Verdun Affair.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Timothy

While first-time novelist Nick Dybek made it quite obvious that his book was meant to be a modern take on TREASURE ISLAND, for this reader it simply didn't work. Too long by at least a hundred pages, WHEN CAPTAIN FLINT WAS STILL A GOOD MAN is fatally flawed by a surplus of simply awful metaphors and......more

Goodreads review by Isabelle

The title of this book, and the setting on the pacific northwest were what drew me in. Unfortunately, they were also what kept me reading and the bulk of my thoughts since completing the book has been of those two things, and, primarily the former. If not for those two, there is a good chance I woul......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

Very literate and well-written, with some really great lines and very well-drawn setting, characterization, and plot. It's also very much an intense read...sort of like a thriller but with very different elements from your average thriller. I read it as often and for as long at a time as I could. Al......more