Galore Michael Crummey
2011 Shortlist

Galore

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us.

An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that was rural Newfoundland, a place almost too harrowing and extravagant to be real. Remote and isolated, exposed to savage extremes of climate and fate, the people of Paradise Deep persist in a realm where the line between the everyday and the otherworldly is impossible to distinguish. 

Propelled by the disputes and alliances, grievances and trade-offs that bind the Sellers and Devine families through generations, Galore is alive with singular characters, and an uncommon insight into the complexities of human nature.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Michael
Crummey

MICHAEL CRUMMEY is the author of seven books of poetry and a collection of short stories. He is also the author of the novels The Wreckage, finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; Galore, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Novel and finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award; Sweetland, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award; and The Innocents, finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Governor General’s Literary Award. His most recent novel, The Adversary, was a #1 national bestseller. Michael Crummey lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

MICHAEL CRUMMEY is the author of seven books of poetry and a collection of short stories. He is also the author of the novels The Wreckage, finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; Galore, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Novel and finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award; Sweetland, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award; and The Innocents, finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Governor General’s Literary Award. His most recent novel, The Adversary, was a #1 national bestseller. Michael Crummey lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
15/03/2012
Country
Canada
Original Language
English
Publisher
Doubleday Canada

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