Archive for April 8, 2011
GALORE by Michael Crummey
Michael Crummey opens his new novel with Judah, sitting in a “makeshift asylum cell, shut away with the profligate stink of fish that clung to him all his days.” Only Mary Tryphena Devine comes near him these days, urging him to take a little food – or, if he doesn’t want to eat – to just die. Judah’s story is the primary, yet not the only otherworldly theme that glides through this multigenerational family saga, touching everybody in its wake. The novel is set in one of Newfoundland’s wild and rough eastern coastal regions, and, more specifically, in two remote fishing villages, Paradise Deep and The Gut.
April 8, 2011
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Tags: Historical, Newfoundland, Speculative (Beyond Reality) · Posted in: Allegory, Award Winning Author, Canada, Commonwealth Prize, Facing History, Magical Realism, Small Town, Speculative (Beyond Reality), World Literature
