First snow, last light

Resource Information

The work First snow, last light represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

First snow, last light

Statement of responsibility

by Wayne Johnston

Creator

• Johnston, Wayne A., (Wayne Alexander), 1958-

Contributor

• Pineo, Stephen
• Fabbro, Iole

Narrator

• Fabbro, Iole
• Pineo, Stephen

Subject

• Families -- Fiction
• Missing persons -- Fiction
• Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction
• Secrecy -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Ned Vatcher, only 14, ambles home from school before the first storm of 1936 to find the house locked, the family car missing, and his parents gone without a trace. From that point on, his life is driven by the need to find out what happened to the Vanished Vatchers. His father, Edgar, born to a poor family of fishermen, had risen to become the right-hand man to the colony's prime minister, then suffered an unexpected fall from grace. While searching for the truth, Ned finds himself enmeshed in the family of his missing father, who are themselves haunted by the inexplicable disappearance of a third Vatcher, a young man who was lost at sea on a calm and sunny day years earlier. Two other people loom large as Ned becomes Newfoundland's first media mogul, building an empire to insulate him from loss: a Jesuit priest named Father Duggan, and Sheilagh Fielding, a boozy giantess who, while wandering the city streets at night, composes satiric columns that scandalize the rich and powerful

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Cataloging source

OTP

Form of composition

other

PerformerNote

Narrated by: Stephen Pineo, Iole Fabbro

Target audience

specialized