5/22/2023 0 Comments Galore michael crummey summary![]() ![]() In this case, the wealthy outsider is not a faceless corporation but the Newfoundland government, and the objective is not to replace the settlement with a luxury resort but to shut it down altogether. Most are inclined to accept, but an intransigent loner threatens the deal. It’s a familiar tale: residents of a struggling rural community are offered money by outsiders to pull up stakes. The difference being that Galore depicts the advent of a way of life, while Sweetland draws the curtain on its end. ATVs and Internet service notwithstanding, the 21st-century residents of Sweetland are largely engaged in the same hardscrabble fight for survival that preoccupied their ancestors. John’s author of novels, poetry, and short fiction, has narrowed the frame from his previous full-length fiction, Galore – a sprawling, myth-imbued epic about the early days of European settlement in coastal Newfoundland. The story explores the extent to which one is indivisible from the other.Ĭrummey, the esteemed St. ![]() The title of Michael Crummey’s new novel is the name of both the main character and the economically eclipsed Newfoundland outport island he inhabits. ![]()
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