Galore Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages

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Original Title:	Galore
ISBN:	0385663145 (ISBN13: 9780385663144)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Newfoundland(Canada)
Literary Awards:	Atlantic Independent Booksellers’ Choice Award Nominee (2010), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Caribbean and Canada (2010), Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction (2010), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2011)

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Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us. 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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Title	:	Galore
Author	:	Michael Crummey
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	August 11th 2009 by Doubleday Canada
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Magical Realism

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This is a book of such potency, it feels alive in your hands, fills your head with its characters, the names whispering in dreams in the middle of the night. Devine's Widow. Jabez Trim. Mary Tryphena. Judah Devine. Doubting Thomas Trass. Reverend Dodge. King-me Sellers. Obediah and Azariah. The triplets who are so identical, even they all think they're Alphonse. And the places they live! Paradise Deep. The Gut. Selina's House. The story is intricate, like a labyrinth but one the reader can walk

Two parts history and one part fairy tale, Galore takes place on the isolated island of Newfoundland, where the lines between reality and fantasy, and between superstition and happenstance all get a bit blurry. While at the beginning, I would find myself questioning how any of this could actually happen, by the end I freely accepted the idea that the reason a girl would be born with webbed fingers could be traced to an affair her great-grandfather had had with a mermaid decades earlier.The



This novel has a lot of elements that pretty much guarantee an enjoyable read for me - a bleak, cold-weather island setting; embedded superstitions and magical realism; religious conflict; quirky characters... this is my "type." Readers who enjoyed The Shipping News or Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer would probably enjoy this.I did get a bit bogged down in the discussion of the fisherman's union, although surely that was timely in the period this is set. That and a frustration with how the

There are two epigraphs at the beginning of this marvelous novel. The first, being from Gabriel García Márquez, suggests well encounter strains of magic realism in the pages ahead. The second, being from Psalms, hints that the book promises a rich language, a unique cadence and an emphasis on story as opposed to character. Both, it turns out, are appropriate. GALORE is set on the shore in far Newfoundland in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The country is wild, the weather terrible, the sea

Michael Crummey was born & raised in Newfoundland, lives there still, and has set all of his meticulously researched novels & collections of short stories thus far in this beautiful, windswept, and harshly-demanding Canadian province.is set in the outport villages of Paradise Deep and The Gut, joined by the Tolt Road over the headland between them, in an undefined period that covers most of the nineteenth century and the first few years of the twentieth. The novel chronicles the lives of

My Maternal Grandmother was born and raised on Bonne Bay in Woody Point. This is a very special place, extremely dear to my heart, which should be a testament to this beautiful and wild island's powers since I've only been privileged enough to visit there twice. Hence, my interest in this book, and I hate to say it, but it just wasn't for me.I'm very glad to see that so many have enjoyed a Newfie writer. Truly. However, if this had been my one and only exposure to the island and it's people, I