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Galore, April 2011
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April 2011
On Sale: March 29, 2011
352 pages
ISBN: 1590514343
EAN: 9781590514344
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Fiction
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book,
Caribbean & Canada and the Canadian Authors Association
Literary Award; Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary
Award for Fiction, the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Book
Award, and the Winterset Award When a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote
coastal town of Paradise Deep, the last thing any of the
townspeople expect to find inside it is a man, silent and
reeking of fish, but remarkably alive. The discovery of this
mysterious person, soon christened Judah, sets the town
scrambling for answers as its most prominent citizens weigh
in on whether he is man or beast, blessing or curse, miracle
or demon. Though Judah is a shocking addition, the town of
Paradise Deep is already full of unusual characters. King-me
Sellers, self-appointed patriarch, has it in for an
inscrutable woman known only as Devine’s Widow, with whom he
has a decades-old feud. Her granddaughter, Mary Tryphena, is
just a child when Judah washes ashore, but finds herself
tied to him all her life in ways she never expects.
Galore is the story of the saga that develops between
these families, full of bitterness and love, spanning two
centuries. With Paradise Deep, award-winning novelist Michael Crummey
imagines a realm where the line between the everyday and the
otherworldly is impossible to discern. Sprawling and
intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel
about the power of stories to shape and sustain us.
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