Summary
An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that was rural Newfoundland, a place almost too harrowing and extravagant to be real. Remote and isolated, exposed to savage extremes of climate and fate, the people of Paradise Deep persist in a realm where the line between the everyday and the otherworldly is impossible to distinguish.
Propelled by the disputes and alliances, grievances and trade-offs that bind…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780336183 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780336187 |
| Author: | Michael Crummey |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 20 December 2003 |
| Weight: | 472g |
| Dimensions: | 154mm x 234mm x 28mm |
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A glittering, fabulist tale…reminiscent of the work of Jean Giono, particularly Joy of Man’s Desiring, and Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate, Galore is a tale in which humans are confronted with the miraculous. - Los Angeles Times
a well written, deftly orchestrated, consistently entertaining novel. - TLS[An] expansive yarn…in lilting prose. - The New YorkerLike the two-faced ocean they pull their living from, Crummey’s characters in this multi-generational unwinding are icy and surprising. The denizens of Paradise Deep and its neighboring town, the Gut, end up as twisted as the wind-tortured trees, making for a quirky quilt of personalities that might remind a reader of Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News. - The Washington PostThis is the book that will win Crummey a permanent place in American readers’ hearts. With Galore he has done something much more besides writing a compulsively readable book. He has created an unforgettable place of the imagination. Paradise Deep belongs on the same literary map as Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha and Garcia Marquez’s Macondo. - The Boston GlobeGhosts, gangsters, mermen, and a Christ-like healer who emerges from the belly of a beached whale are among the attractions in a boisterous, one-of-a-kind folk epic about feuding intermarried clans in Newfoundland … A lively, eccentric, mythmaking novel inspired by two hundred years of Canadian history. - Kirkus ReviewsNewfoundland author Crummey’s award-winning third novel … affirms that our lives are always astonishing. It’s been justly compared to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. It also calls to mind Graham Swift’s Waterland and Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria, as well as William Faulkner’s epic Compson novels, and will appeal to readers who enjoyed those works. (starred review) - Library JournalMythic and gorgeous … Crummey lovingly carves out the privation and inner intricacies that mark his characters’ lives with folkloric embellishments and the precision of the finest scrimshaw. (starred review) - Publishers WeeklyAbout The Author
Michael Crummey
Michael Crummey is the author of a memoir, Newfoundland: Journey into a Lost Nation, three books of poetry, and a book of short stories, Flesh and Blood. His first novel, River Thieves, was a finalist for the 2001 Giller Prize, and his second, The Wreckage, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. He lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
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