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- There are two Sweetlands that give the novel its name. The first Sweetland is an island, a tiny blip on the map off the south coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. It’s been settled for 12 generations, a small, tight-knit (though not always harmonious) community forming against the violence and vicissitudes of the North Atlantic.
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Apr 13, 2017 · The result, Sweetland, is the powerful story of Moses Sweetland, the one person in a small Newfoundland community who refuses a government resettlement package.
A Swedish ancestry would be remarkable and remarked upon. The name “Sweetland,” however, is common in the tiny corner of England from which Newfoundland settlers came, and every linguistic and cultural clue Moses Sweetland gives suggests he is of English West Country extraction.
Aug 19, 2014 · Moses Sweetland is a grumpy old man living on a small island in Canada (which is also named Sweetland.) The government wants to buy out all the island’s inhabitants and use it for their own purposes, which all the citizens of Sweetland think is great, except for Moses.
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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;...
Aug 31, 2014 · In his superb fourth novel, the death of the commercial fishery means the end of the line for residents who have lived for generations on Sweetland Island off Newfoundland’s south coast.
Aug 22, 2014 · In his new novel, Sweetland, Crummey — who was born and raised in Newfoundland, and returned to the island more than a decade ago — shifts his approach by 180 degrees to focus on a ...
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.
- Michael Crummey
