Michael Crummey

The Wreckage

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From the award-winning author of River Thieves comes a sweeping novel of love crossed by the blindness of faith and fate. In a remote Newfoundland outpost at the onset of the Second World War, the young Catholic Wish Furey meets the passionate, independent sixteen-year-old Protestant Sadie Parsons. They begin an intense affair that is cut short as prejudice and mistrust drive Wish away, into the British Army and the war. At home in Newfoundland, Sadie turns her back on her family and moves to St. John's to wait for Wish-until she receives word that he is dead. Fifty years later, Sadie returns to Newfoundland to scatter her American husban… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-385-66061-7
EAN: 9780385660617
Produktnummer: 27463968
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 368 S.

Über den Autor

MICHAEL CRUMMEY is the author of a memoir, Newfoundland: Journey into a Lost Nation, three books of poetry including Arguments with Gravity, winner of the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry, and a book of short stories Flesh & Blood. His first novel, River Thieves, was a finalist for the 2001 Scotiabank Giller Prize; his second novel The Wreckage was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize; his third novel, Galore, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canada and the Caribbean) and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award; and his fourth novel, Sweetland, was a national bestseller and finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. He lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.