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Galore

Crummey, Michael more...

Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Historical fiction
Publisher: Constable and Robinson
Imprint: Corsair
Publication Date: 20/02/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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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 the Sellers and Devine families through generations, "Galore" is alive with singular characters, and an uncommon insight into the complexities of human nature. Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, "Galore" is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us. This is Michael Crummey's most ambitious and accomplished work to date.

Praise for "The Wreckage"
"Crummey offers a journey of stimulating moral inquiry.... Heroically human."
-- "The Globe and Mail"

"Crummey's gift is to write with compassion, complexity and depth."
-- "National Post"

"The writing moves with the confidence of someone at home with his material and setting, well-versed in its details both beautiful and awful."
-- "Atlantic Books Today"

"From the Hardcover edition."

Title: Galore
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Contributors: By (author) Michael Crummey

ISBN 13: 9781780336183
ISBN 10: 1780336187

Publisher: Constable and Robinson
Imprint: Corsair
Publication Date: 20/02/2012
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: Historical fiction
NBS Classification: Historical & Mythological Fiction
Dewey Classification: 813.6 (DC23)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Thickness: 26mm
Weight: 474g