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Carregando... Galorede Michael Crummey
   Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  Castlelass | Oct 30, 2022 |   The language is clever, employing literary devices with a deft hand while keeping the Newfoundland dialect intact. The characters he sketches are fully-realized, and although their lives are beset with the incredible, they are also quite believable. It has always been an amazement to me how Crummey does that: creates extraordinary characters who are believable and accessible. Definitely going on my shelves in hardcover. (  ) fiverivers | Mar 3, 2022 |  ) kerryp | Jul 4, 2020 | ) janeajones | May 22, 2019 | ) GaylaBassham | May 27, 2018 |
 Newfoundland author Crummey’s award-winning third novel, published in Canada in 2009, affirms that our lives are always astonishing. It’s been justly compared to Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. It also calls to mind Graham Swift’s Waterland and Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria, as well as William Faulkner’s epic Compson novels, and will appeal to readers who enjoyed those works. Crummey lovingly carves out the privation and inner intricacies that mark his characters' lives with folkloric embellishments and the precision of the finest scrimshaw. An intriguing read. PrêmiosDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML: 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 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. .Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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This is a unique book. The story contains a small portion of magical realism based upon the folklore and superstitions of the region. It includes lots of eccentric characters. The plot is filled with outlandish episodes. I enjoyed the first half more than the second, which covers union organizing around the time of WWI. If you enjoy books based on myths and folktales, give this one a try.
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