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| Original Title: | Galore |
| ISBN: | 0385663145 (ISBN13: 9780385663144) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Newfoundland(Canada) |
| Literary Awards: | Atlantic Independent Booksellers’ Choice Award Nominee (2010), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Caribbean and Canada (2010), Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction (2010), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2011) |
Michael Crummey
Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.73 | 4770 Users | 740 Reviews
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Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us.Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, Caribbean & Canada and the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award; Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Book Award, and the Winterset Award.
When a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, the last thing any of the townspeople expect to find inside it is a man, silent and reeking of fish, but remarkably alive. The discovery of this mysterious person, soon christened Judah, sets the town scrambling for answers as its most prominent citizens weigh in on whether he is man or beast, blessing or curse, miracle or demon. Though Judah is a shocking addition, the town of Paradise Deep is already full of unusual characters. King-me Sellers, self-appointed patriarch, has it in for an inscrutable woman known only as Devine’s Widow, with whom he has a decades-old feud. Her granddaughter, Mary Tryphena, is just a child when Judah washes ashore, but finds herself tied to him all her life in ways she never expects. Galore is the story of the saga that develops between these families, full of bitterness and love, spanning two centuries.
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 us.
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| Title | : | Galore |
| Author | : | Michael Crummey |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | August 11th 2009 by Doubleday Canada |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Magical Realism |
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Ratings: 3.73 From 4770 Users | 740 ReviewsCommentary Based On Books Galore
Michael Crummey opens his new novel with Judah, "wilderness on two legs, mute and unknowable, a blankness that could drown a man", sitting in a "makeshift asylum cell, shut away with the profligate stink of fish that clung to him all his days." Only Mary Tryphena Devine comes near him these days, urging him to take a little food... Judah's story is the primary, yet not the only otherworldly theme that glides through this multigenerational chronicle, set in one of Newfoundland's wild and roughOriginal review posted at Layers of Thought.Historical fiction and a multi-generational tale, set in the freezing Newfoundland seaside town of Paradise Deep. Layered with snippets of the residents lives containing a touch of myth and small tastes of paranormal.About: Galore is a complex and page-turning book, set in an area and time where living is bleak a frigid seaside town in the mid 1800s. Sadly the locals are starving, so when a dying whale swims into the harbor the town folk eagerly wait
I have friends who are enamoured of this book, I bought it at the Adelaide Writers Festival after hearing Crummey read an excerpt during an interview with Margo Lanagan.If authors want to sell books, develop some public reading skills and choose your passages wisely. Crummey reeled me in hook, line and sinker.He read (in a faint Newfoundland accent if I recall) a selection of pages from near the beginning of the novel; a dying whale washes up on the shore and the townsfolk set about harvesting
There are two epigraphs at the beginning of this marvelous novel. The first, being from Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, suggests well encounter strains of magic realism in the pages ahead. The second, being from Psalms, hints that the book promises a rich language, a unique cadence and an emphasis on story as opposed to character. Both, it turns out, are appropriate. GALORE is set on the shore in far Newfoundland in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The country is wild, the weather terrible, the sea
My Maternal Grandmother was born and raised on Bonne Bay in Woody Point. This is a very special place, extremely dear to my heart, which should be a testament to this beautiful and wild island's powers since I've only been privileged enough to visit there twice. Hence, my interest in this book, and I hate to say it, but it just wasn't for me.I'm very glad to see that so many have enjoyed a Newfie writer. Truly. However, if this had been my one and only exposure to the island and it's people, I
Original review posted at Layers of Thought.Historical fiction and a multi-generational tale, set in the freezing Newfoundland seaside town of Paradise Deep. Layered with snippets of the residents lives containing a touch of myth and small tastes of paranormal.About: Galore is a complex and page-turning book, set in an area and time where living is bleak a frigid seaside town in the mid 1800s. Sadly the locals are starving, so when a dying whale swims into the harbor the town folk eagerly wait
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