Sweetland - by Michael Crummey (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Winner of the CBC Bookie Award for Fiction<br /> Winner of the Newfoundland & Labrador Book Award<br /> Finalist for the the BMO Winterset Award<br /> Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award<br /> Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award<br /> An Audie Awards Finalist <p>The epic tale of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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 <em>The Shipping News</em>, 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 <em>Everything I Never Told You</em>), 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.</p><p>Winner of Newfoundland Book Award</p><p>Short-listed for the Governor's General Award</p><p>Winner of the CBC Bookie Award for Fiction</p><p>Finalist for the Winterset Prize</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Absorbing......[A]s Crummey's elegant prose and storytelling prowess make abundantly clear, no man is an island--William D. Cohan "New York Times Book Review"<br><br>An evocative portrait of a disappearing way of life, <em>Sweetland</em> is also a powerful rumination on what's lost in letting go of the past--and the sometimes-unbearable cost of trying to hold onto it. Michael Crummey's deceptively spare language perfectly matches the tiny island community at the novel's center: beneath the quiet surface, there's huge emotional depth and heart.--Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You<br><br>Beautifully capturing the wild, rugged landscape, Crummey has written a novel about love for the land one is from.--Nicole Jones "Vanity Fair.com"<br><br>Impetuous and imperious, Moses Sweetland is an extraordinary, beautifully realized character, and the supporting cast--including Queenie Coffin, a chain-smoking romance-novel addict who hasn't left her house in four decades; and the feral Priddle brothers, "Irish twins" born 10 months apart--are scarcely less so. But <em>Sweetland</em>, Crummey's finest novel yet, reaches its mythic and mesmerizing heights only after the others depart, leaving Moses--a Newfoundland Robinson Crusoe who even encounters a Friday-like dog--alone on his eponymous island, bracing for a bitter winter both seasonal and personal.-- "Macleans"<br><br>Masterful writing throughout.-- "Minneapolis Star-Tribune"<br><br>Michael Crummey's <em>Sweetland</em> is a beautiful prayer for a dying island and an elegy for the titular character, who is both haunted and haunting, besieged by ghosts and yet trying to stop himself from becoming one.--Alexi Zentner, author of The Lobster Kings<br><br>Moses is a memorably strong-willed character... [<em>Sweetland</em>] also conveys the way that a sense of place is the product of relationships--among the living, with the dead, and, in Moses's case, arising from intimate connections to land and sea.-- "Publishers Weekly, Starred review"<br><br>Powerful...Crummey's novel is doggedly life-affirming.-- "Sunday Times (London)"<br><br>The latest novel by the Canadian Michael Crummey tells a slow-burning, ultimately moving story about a man and a town, both called Sweetland.--John Williams "New York Times"<br><br>Wry, touching, and filled with insights into the modern human condition, Michael Crummey's spare and sturdy prose in <em>Sweetland</em> delivers a kaleidoscopic portrayal of a quirky island community forced to abandon their vanishing way of life. Ignoring government bribes and threats from his neighbors, the obstinate waterman Moses Sweetland defiantly chooses the isolation of his family home off the Newfoundland coast to become a present-day Robinson Crusoe: resourceful, irascible, wily, and wholly unforgettable.--John Pipkin, author of Woodsburner<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><P>MICHAEL CRUMMEY is the author of a memoir, "Newfoundland: Journey into a Lost Nation," three books of poetry including "Arguments with Gravity," winner of the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry, and a book of short stories "Flesh & Blood." His first novel, "River Thieves," was a finalist for the 2001 Scotiabank Giller Prize; and his second novel "The Wreckage" was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His third novel, "Galore," won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canada and the Caribbean) and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. He lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.
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