The Plover A Novel

<p>Declan O Donnell has sailed deep into the vast, wild ocean, having had just finally <i>enough</i> of other people and their problems. He will go it alone, he will be his own country, he will be beholden to and beloved of no one.<br><br>But the galaxy soon presents him with a string of odd, entertaining, and dangerous passengers, who become companions of every sort and stripe. <i>The Plover</i> is the story of their adventures and misadventures in the immense blue country one of their company calls Pacifica. Hounded by a mysterious enemy, reluctantly acquiring one new resident after another, Declan O Donnell's lonely boat is eventually crammed with humor, argument, tension, and a resident herring gull.<br><br>Brian Doyle's <i>The Plover</i> is a sea novel, a maritime adventure, the story of a cold man melting, a compendium of small miracles, an elegy to Edmund Burke, a watery quest, a battle at sea---and a rapturous, heartfelt celebration of life's surprising paths, planned and unplanned.</p>