Of the title, Michael Crummey has said "When I was writing this book I felt a sense of abundance. The source material - the folklore of Newfoundland - is so incredibly rich that I wanted to use that word. One thing I liked about 'galore' is that 'abundance' has only positive connotations, but . · 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 bltadwin.ru: Other Press, LLC. · Review: Galore, by Michael Crummey. Steven Galloway. Published Aug. This article was published more than 12 years ago. Some information may no longer be bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins.
Part history, fable, and love story, Galore by Michael Crummey is a multi-generational family and community saga. Spanning two centuries, it details the lives and loves of the people living in the harsh and isolated landscape of Paradise Deep, a small fishing village on coast of Newfoundland. Michael Crummey is a poet and storyteller, and the author of the critically acclaimed novels River Thieves and The Wreckage and the short story collection Flesh and bltadwin.ru has been nominated for the Giller Prize, the IMPAC Dublin Award, and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Canada for bltadwin.ru lives in St. John's, Newfoundland. Michael Crummey reads from his novel Galore at the Open House Festival in bltadwin.ru 2 of 2bltadwin.ru?isbn=
galore by Michael Crummey ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ma Ghosts, 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. Michael Crummey’s Galore is a fabulous, fable-filled ball of yarns such as I’ve never encountered before. Tall, but plausible tales, odd, eccentric but weirdly familiar characters, dialogue straight out of the mouths of outport Newfoundlanders, historicized fiction, fictionalized history—it has, as its title suggests, a super-abundance of good things. Galore Michael Crummey. Info/Buy. Tending Roses Lisa Wingate. Info/Buy. The Pastures of Heaven John Steinbeck, James Nagel. Info/Buy. Saving Grace Lee Smith. Info/Buy.
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