Fish For Dinner: Tales of Newfoundland and Labrador
By Paul O'Neill
Illustrated By Tara Fleming

Fiction: Short Stories Paperback, 176 pages, b&w illustrations ISBN 10: 1-897317-35-2 ISBN 13: 978-1-897317-35-8 Price: CDN$16.95 Qty:

Book Description Germany has the Brothers Grimm, and now Newfoundland has Paul O’Neill. Paul O’Neill has been collecting favourite stories from around the world since high school. In Fish for Dinner, he has taken tales of long ago that grew out of the world’s oral traditions and set them in communities around Newfoundland and Labrador. The result is a wonderful collection of tales of ghosts, witches, fairies, and magical happenings for the adult reader. Included in Fish For Dinner: Tales of Newfoundland and Labrador By Paul ONeill are stories from: L’Anse aux Meadows — The One Hundredth Wife Corner Brook — How Finbar Beat Old Scratch Harbour Grace — The Wisdom of Solomon Petty Harbour — Skipper and the Red Fox Nain — The Boy Who Never Said A Word Fogo — The Good Merchant . . . and many more! About the Author Born in St. John’s in 1928, Paul O’Neill graduated from the National Academy of Theatre Arts in New York in 1948 and was a professional actor in the US and England until 1954, when he became a CBC producer, retiring in 1986. He was the founding president of the Newfoundland Writers’ Guild and has been a volunteer with over fifty organizations during the last half century. His awards include the Order of Canada, the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador, the ACTRA Award of Excellence, and an honorary doctor of laws degree from Memorial University. His prose and poetry have been published internationally.