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The Adversary - A Novel
Michael Crummey
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From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story
of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of
human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 GILLER PRIZE, GOVERNOR GENERAL'S PRIZE AND
WRITER'S TRUST FICTION AWARD The Innocents is richly imagined and
compulsively readable. A riveting story of hardship and survival,
and an unflinching exploration of the bond between brother and
sister. By turns electrifying and heartbreaking, it is a testament
to the bounty and barbarity of the world, to the wonders and
strangeness of our individual selves. In centuries past, a brother
and sister are orphaned in an isolated outport cove on
Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky
shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of
abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with only the
barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the
family's boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by
their mother and father to help them survive. Muddling through the
severe round of the seasons, through years of meagre catches and
storms and ravaging illness, it is their fierce loyalty to each
other that motivates and sustains them. But as seasons pass and
they wade deeper into the mystery of their own natures, even that
loyalty will be tested.
For twelve generations, the inhabitants of a remote island in
Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now, in the second
decade of the 21st century, they are facing resettlement. They have
each been offered a generous compensation package to leave the
island for good. There's just one proviso: everyone must go.
Gradually, all of the residents surrender to the inevitable. All of
the residents, that is, but one: old Moses Sweetland. Motivated in
part by a sense of history and belonging, and concerned that his
somewhat eccentric great-nephew will wilt on the mainland, Moses
resists the coercion of family and friends in order to hold onto
the only place he's ever called home. As his options dwindle, Moses
Sweetland concocts a scheme to remain the island's only living
resident. Cut off from the outside world, with the food supply
diminishing and weather shredding away the last evidence of human
habitation, Sweetland finds himself, finally, in the company of
ghosts . . . Written with incomparable emotional power and depth,
Sweetland is a story about loyalty and courage, about the human
will to persist even when all hope seems lost.
"In all creative writing, the question of what is true and what is
real are two very different considerations. Figuring out how to
dance between them is a murky business." In Most of What Follows Is
True, Michael Crummey examines the complex relationship between
fact and fiction, between the "real world" and the stories we tell
to explain it. Drawing on his own experience appropriating
historical characters to fictional ends, he brings forward
important questions about how writers use history and real-life
figures to animate fictional stories. Is there a limit to the
liberties a writer can take? Is there a point at which a
fictionalized history becomes a false history? What
responsibilities do writers have to their readers, and to the
historical and cultural materials they exploit as sources? Crummey
offers thoughtful, witty views on the deep and timely conversation
around appropriation.
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book, Caribbean
& Canada and the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award;
Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the
Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Book Award, and the Winterset Award
When a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote coastal town
of Paradise Deep, the last thing any of the townspeople expect to
find inside it is a man, silent and reeking of fish, but remarkably
alive. The discovery of this mysterious person, soon christened
Judah, sets the town scrambling for answers as its most prominent
citizens weigh in on whether he is man or beast, blessing or curse,
miracle or demon. Though Judah is a shocking addition, the town of
Paradise Deep is already full of unusual characters. King-me
Sellers, self-appointed patriarch, has it in for an inscrutable
woman known only as Devine's Widow, with whom he has a decades-old
feud. Her granddaughter, Mary Tryphena, is just a child when Judah
washes ashore, but finds herself tied to him all her life in ways
she never expects. "Galore "is the story of the saga that develops
between these families, full of bitterness and love, spanning two
centuries.
With Paradise Deep, award-winning novelist Michael Crummey
imagines a realm where the line between the everyday and the
otherworldly is impossible to discern. Sprawling and intimate,
stark and fantastical, "Galore "is a novel about the power of
stories to shape and sustain us.
"Vibrantly written and uniquely evocative" (Denver Post), River Thievesis the riveting story of a group of European settlers of the New World in the early nineteenth century. The Peytons, their enigmatic housekeeper, and the men who manage their fishing and trapping concerns on the shores of Newfoundland live lives of punishing physicality, inarticulate longing, and violence. Their misunderstandings and compromises have tragic consequences not only for their own community but also for the Beothuk, or Red Indians, a people on the verge of extinction. With penetrating insight, Michael Crummey captures both the vast sweep of history and the intimate lives of those caught in its wake.
Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature
Centre/Centre de litterature canadienne reaches into its ten-year
archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most
diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature.
This anthology offers readers samples from some of Canada's most
exciting writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Each selection
is introduced by a brief essay, serving as a point of entry into
the writer's work. From the east coast of Newfoundland to Kitamaat
territory on British Columbia's central coast, there is a story for
everyone, from everywhere. True to Canada's multilingual and
multicultural heritage, these ten writers come from diverse
ethnicities and backgrounds, and work in multiple languages,
including English, French, and Cree. Ying Chen | essay by Julie
Rodgers Lynn Coady | essay by Maite Snauwaert Michael Crummey |
essay by Jennifer Bowering Delisle Caterina Edwards | essay by
Joseph Pivato Marina Endicott | essay by Daniel Laforest Lawrence
Hill | essay by Winfried Siemerling Alice Major | essay by Don
Perkins Eden Robinson | essay by Kit Dobson Gregory Scofield |
essay by Angela Van Essen Kim Thuy | essay by Pamela V. Sing
The scarcely populated town of Sweetland clings to the shore of a
remote Canadian island. Its slow decline has finally reached a
head, with the mainland government offering each islander a
generous resettlement package- the only stipulation being that
everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses Sweetland, whose
ancestors founded the island, is determined to refuse. As one by
one his neighbors relent, he recalls the town's rugged history and
its eccentric cast of characters. For fans of The Shipping News,
Michael Crummey's prose conjures up the mythical, sublime world of
Sweetland's past amid a storm-battered landscape haunted by local
lore. In a spare style that belies "huge emotional depth and heart"
(Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You), Crummey
masterfully weaves together the past and present, creating in
Sweetland a spectacular portrait of one man's battle to survive as
his world vanishes around him.
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