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Sylvanus Now is the storyline of a man, Sylvanus Now, who has humble ambitions - he needs to fish in the old way, like his dad before him, and he needs to marry Adelaide, the stunning gal he spied once at a boogie in Ragged Rock. Newfoundland's fishery, however, is on the verge of catastrophic change, and Adelaide demonstrates more of an enigma than the robust, black-browed Sylvanus imagines. Occur the first 1950s, against the background of the collapse of the salt-fish industry, Sylvanus Now combines a separate critique of federal government short-sightedness with a soft love story about two different people who probably shouldn't have married but do. Morrissey's lushly registered narrative, steeped in outport dialect ("Cripes, the trend is to ask Am for an area on his liner? You are getting like dad, bandied at the legs from straddling a boat"), alternates between Sylvanus' and Adelaide's items of view. While Sylvanus clings to his traditional ways with a reckless tenacity, Addie is a fireball of conflicting thoughts, forever spewing invective or else brooding alone. Forced to drop out of school by her perennially pregnant mother, Adelaide rails against sportfishing ("she prayed that every fish caught would be the last in the ocean") and newborns ("their grubby little hands forever snatching, picking and scratching"). Yet, in a short time, she locates herself married to her fisherman suitor and expecting their first child - a formula for disaster if ever there was one.
