Download or read book Gaff Topsails written by Patrick Kavanagh and published by Penguin Paperbacks. This book was released on 1999 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the literary tradition of "The Shipping News" and "The Bird Artist", this debut work evokes a world suffused with images and presences of spirits and saints, the drowned and the saved, during the Feast of St. John in 1948.