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Author: Michael Crummey
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JanFeb 2002
First Novels
by W.P Kinsella
A finalist for the Giller Prize, River Thieves, by Michael Crummey (Doubleday Canada, 335pp, $34.95, ISBN: 0385658109) is a historical novel set in Newfoundland, primarily in the early 1800s. David Buchan, a British naval officer has orders to make friendly contact with the Beothuk Indians, known as Red Indians because they dye their bodies with ochre clay. He approaches the Peyton family for help; John Sr. is a fierce old man known to hate the Indians, while his son John Jr Read more...
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 | The Wreckage
by Michael Crummey
Doubleday Canada
368 pages $34.95 cloth
ISBN: 038566060X
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The Rain of Incident and Circumstance
by Cynthia Sugars
"There is a tide in the affairs of men," says Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. At the
flood, it yields up riches; if passed over, the voyage of one's life "is bound in shallows
and in miseries." These lines provide an apt summation of a central theme in Michael
Crummey's new novel The Wreckage: the ebb and flow of human destiny. A recurring
scene in the novel describes a tidal wave that plows through a coastal community in
Newfoundland, leaving wreckage in its wake. Read more...
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