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Author: Michael Crummey


JanFeb 2002
The God Who Begat A Jackal
by Nega Mezlekia

Penguin Books
275 pages $25 paper
ISBN: 0141006625
River Thieves
by Michael Crummey

Doubleday Canada
335 pages $34.95 paper
ISBN: 0385658109
Stanley Park
by Timothy Taylor

Knopf Canada
423 pages $34.95 paper
ISBN: 0676973078
Rogues and vagabonds
by Marilyn Lightstone

Stoddart
316 pages $29.95 paper
ISBN: 0773733205
Stories to hide from your mother
by Tess Fragoulis

Thistledown Press
366 pages $21.95 paper
ISBN: 1551520451
Tell it Slant
by Beth Follett

Coach House Books
149 pages $17.95 paper
ISBN: 1552450813
The Confessions of Nipper Mooney
by Ed Kavanagh

Killick Press
322 pages $19.95 paper
ISBN: 1894294289

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...
Oct 2005
The Wreckage
by Michael Crummey

Doubleday Canada
368 pages $34.95 cloth
ISBN: 038566060X

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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