Flesh and Blood - Brossura

Crummey, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 038565927X ISBN 13: 9780385659277

Casa editrice: Anchor Canada, 2003

Riassunto

From the author of the best-selling, Giller-nominated River Thieves comes a heartbreaking and masterful collection of short fiction.

With uncommon elegance and compassion, Michael Crummey has created a community of exiles, characters estranged from their home, from their families or, just as often, from themselves. Set largely in the small Newfoundland mining town of Black Rock, but straying as far west as Vancouver and as far east as China, these stories are subtle, stark portrayals of people alternately looking for or trying desperately to escape their place in the world.

A young boy confuses love and allegiance, then stumbles into the complexities of adulthood; a brother and sister fall in love with the same woman; a frustrated wife protests her husband’s neglect by going on strike with the miners’ union; a lover’s drug habit reunites a woman with the sister she has lost.

Anchor Books is proud to publish an expanded edition of Michael Crummey’s brilliant collection Flesh and Blood, which includes three original stories written just for this edition. Graceful, affecting, and generous of spirit, these stories are unforgettable.

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Recensione:

“When you’ve found an author with the kind of power Crummey has, one of the first things to do is to head back to the bookstore looking for more.” — Atlantic Books Today

“Michael Crummey is a writer of enormous talent.” — Ottawa Citizen

L'autore:

Michael Crummey has written several books of poetry, a short-story collection, and a novel. He is the winner of Bronwen Wallace Award and was nominated for the 1998 Journey Prize. His best-selling and acclaimed first novel, River Thieves, was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Born in Buchans, Newfoundland, growing up there and in Wabush, Labrador, Michael Crummey now lives in St. John’s.

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• Editore: Anchor Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 038565927X
• ISBN 13: 9780385659277
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336