Cape of Storms: A Novel

Dick Lancaster is a talented young artist with dreams big enough to outgrow the village of Lincolnville. He leaves behind Dorothy Ware, the woman he loves, and heads for the city to make his name as an illustrator at the Weekly Torch. What he finds there is not the triumph he imagined, but a world of moral compromise and harder choices than any Sunday school lesson prepared him for. Pollard, writing in the naturalist tradition of Dreiser and Crane, traces the collision between youthful ambition and urban reality, between the innocence of rural life and the complexities of the modern world. The novel is at once a romantically melancholic portrait of a young dreamer and a clear-eyed examination of what America costs those who pursue it.