Date of Award

Fall 2000

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Department

English

Program/Concentration

Creative Writing

Committee Director

Janet Peery

Committee Member

Michael Pearson

Committee Member

Sheri Reynolds

Call Number for Print

Special Collections; LD4331.E64 J33

Abstract

Set at False Cape on the coast of Virginia in the year 1912, this story is about a shipwreck, but it is also a story about choices--between love and honor and betrayal--that face a woman and two men who serve in the U.S. Life-saving Service: Rachel Grey, a widow from Princess Anne County who marries and moves to the desolate beach at False Cape; Robert Grey, keeper of the False Cape Station; and Michael Midgett, a surfman under Grey's command. When the three-masted Italian schooner Francesca da Rimini fetches up on the shoals of False Cape, the relationships of the central characters are jeopardized by the choices they have to make.

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DOI

10.25777/5a1r-pn50

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