Author: Peter Trower. Published by Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, BC., 1993, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with beautiful fold-out-covers. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9 x 6 inch, 238 pages with glossary.
GROGAN'S CAFÉ, A Novel by Peter Trower, is the story of young Terry Belshaw, who swore he'd stay out of the forests, but when he's down on his luck and "fresh out of better ideas," he leaves 1950s Vancouver to try his luck in the woods as a logger, and this is his story.
As Terry feared, there's only one way to learn to be a logger the hard way. After a series of misadventures - including an intense affair with the sensuous wife of a faller - he ends up on Minstrel Island, the crossroads of Knight Inlet's rough brotherhood of gyppo logging camps. A boozy interlude as a cook in Davie Grogan's dismal cafe offers relief from the backbreaking toil of logging, but when long-simmering lusts and rivalries explode into mayhem at an island dance, Terry goes back to the woods, where GROGAN'S CAFÉ speeds to a powerful climax.
