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Author: Sheldon Currie
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JanFeb 1996
Brief Reviews
by Virginia Beaton
In a colliery town, sirens from the mine can mean cave-ins, explosions, or, as in the Westray disaster, sudden death.
Sheldon Currie, author of The Glace Bay Miners' Museum (Breton Books, 138 pages, $12.95 paper) was born in Read more...
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Transplanted Conflicts
by Heather Birrell
Sheldon Currie's Down the Coaltown Road is a murder mystery whose mystery is rooted less in intrigue of the whodunit variety than in the shocking predictability of ethnic prejudice. Set in a small Cape Breton mining community in the year Mussolini joins forces with Hitler, this novel's sour twist can be traced to its exploration of the manner in which conflict (seemingly at some remove) can be transported and terrifyingly transmuted. Read more...
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