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Aug 19, 2014 · Michael Crummey. 3.92. 6,957 ratings1,109 reviews. From the award-winning, bestselling author of Galore comes another unforgettable novel. By turns darkly comic and heartbreakingly sad, Sweetland is a deeply suspenseful story about one man's struggles against the forces of nature and the ruins of memory. For twelve generations, when the fish ...
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Evoking The Shipping News, Michael Crummey—one of Canada's finest novelists—conjures up the mythical, sublime world of Sweetland's past amid a stormbattered landscape haunted by local lore. As in his critically acclaimed novel Galore , Crummey masterfully weaves together past and present, creating in Sweetland a spectacular portrait of one man's battle to survive as his environment ...
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"I have no organizational devices. I'm not proud of that, and it probably makes my life a lot more difficult than it needs to be. I do take notes as I'm approaching a book. I write down little story ideas or anecdotes that I think would be good in the book. But then when I sit down to write it, I never look at those notes. Don't ask me why. It woul...
"I didn't realize this when I was writing the book, but when I was fleshing out the character of Moses Sweetland, the main character and really the only person we follow for the last half of Sweetland, I was dropping in a lot of bits and pieces of my father's life, which I've never done before in a novel. I thought they were just interesting storie...
"I have a little office on the main floor of our house that used to be our middle daughter's bedroom. The room is painted lime green and I was too lazy to repaint it when Robin moved downstairs. My friend Stan Dragland helped me build two huge bookcases. I made a desk out of the leftover plywood. There is a chest of drawers behind me with a printer...
"Before Sweetland, my novels kind of moved in and took over my life. With my previous novel, Galore, I went to sleep thinking about the book, I woke up thinking about the book, all day long I thought about the book. It wasn't unpleasant, but it did occupy an awful lot of space. With Sweetland, my experience was very different. I would get up in the...
Aug 22, 2014 · Sweetland is a thing of beauty, one of the finest novels we are likely to encounter this year. It demonstrates, as the best fiction does (and as Crummey’s novels always have) that the past is ...
Aug 23, 2014 · Michael Crummey’s latest novel is the tale of a man living on a small, imaginary island off Newfoundland’s southern coast, the eponymous Sweetland, a couple of years ago. (No surprise here ...
Sweetland, by award-winning Canadian author Michael Crummey, was published in 2015. It is the tale of a small North Atlantic island in Newfoundland and an elderly man, both bearing the name of Sweetland. The government has offered a resettlement deal to the community, which is struggling after generations of industry loss and depopulation.
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Aug 31, 2014 · SWEETLAND. By Michael Crummey. For a writer who always explores the same theme—loss, both accidental and inevitable, coupled with a resilience that surprises the characters themselves—Michael ...
