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Aug 27, 2019 · 3.78. 9,139 ratings1,266 reviews. From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness. A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline.
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Dec 4, 2019 · Books Book Reviews Fiction Nonfiction Summer reading. In Michael Crummey’s ‘The Innocents,’ two orphans in a remote corner of the world learn to survive. Review by Jon Michaud.
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"I came across an old Newfoundland newspaper and found a paragraph-long account about a clergyman. He was travelling along the coast and happened on a brother and sister living alone in a cove. The sister was pregnant. The clergyman assumed — and quite rightly I'm sure — that the brother was the father. "Being a clergyman, he had a few things to sa...
"I was thinking of my own father when writing this book. He started working with his father in the Labrador fishery when he was nine. He never had a childhood. This was in the 1930s into the 1940s, not the 18th century. I imagine that those children would have been pretty well versed in work. Everybody had work just to survive. "In the book, the tw...
"This book is an adventure story, in a weird way — almost like a road novel. The characters don't move but the road is the ocean, the tides and the currents. Whatever comes by becomes the next chapter in the book. "A lot of the book was about getting inside the heads of these children, who are so innocent and ignorant of the world. How they would t...
Aug 26, 2019 · The award-winning N.L. writer's latest novel will be released Tuesday. Michael Crummey's new book is called The Innocents. (Arielle Hogan, Doubleday Canada) Travelling along the uncharted coasts ...
Nov 12, 2019 · The relentless bleakness is alleviated by the cinematic depiction of the surrounding wilderness, with Crummey’s prose recalling that of Jim Crace in its strange, archaic terminology and sense of timelessness, and the conclusion is strangely moving. The Innocents by Michael Crummey has an overall rating of Rave based on 14 book reviews.
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Aug 23, 2019 · The Innocents, the new novel from St. John’s, Nfld., writer Michael Crummey, begins with tragedy. “They were still youngsters that winter. They lost their baby sister before the first snowfall ...
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Nov 12, 2019 · The Innocents is Crummey's fifth novel–Scotiabank nominated his first, River Thieves, for Canada's Giller Prize, and he's also published several books of poetry. The book's premise is simple enough. Two children, the older boy Evered Best and his younger sister Ada, lose their parents. Orphaned in remote Newfoundland, they must figure out ...
