Editing Rockbound (section)

==Overview==

The "Rockbound" mentioned in the title is name of small fictitious island inspired by East Ironbound, a remote island near Big Tancook Island off the coast of [[Nova Scotia]]. Surrounded by rich but  dangerous fishing grounds, Rockbound is isolated by [[storm]]s, [[fog]] and winter [[weather]]. Two feuding families, the Jungs and the Krauses are dominated by the "king of Rockbound", the sternly righteous and rapacious Uriah Jung. When the young David Jung arrives on Rockbound to claim his [[inheritance]], a small share of the island, he is forced to confront an unforgiving, and controlled world. His conflicts—both internal and external—lock him in a struggle for survival.

His enemies are many: sometimes the [[ocean]], sometimes his own rude behaviour, sometimes his own best friend, sometimes his secret love for the island teacher, but always his relatives and their ambitions for money and power.

''Rockbound'' paints a portrait of hard toil, cunning bitterness and family strife in the years leading to [[World War I]]. The novel evokes the infinite power, the terror and the cruel beauty of the [[Atlantic Ocean]] including the terrifying sinking of a fishing [[schooner]] based on the loss of the schooner ''Sylvia Mosher'' on August 9, 1926, during the [[1926 Atlantic hurricane season|1926 August Gales]] at [[Sable Island]].<ref>Gwendolyn Davies, "Afterword", ''Rockbound'', University of Toronto Press (1989), p. 302</ref>