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Sweetland : a novel / Michael Crummey.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.C717 S94 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crummey, Michael, 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural families--Newfoundland and Labrador--Fiction.
- Rural families.
- Newfoundland and Labrador--Fiction.
- Newfoundland and Labrador.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 322 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
- Summary:
- The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package--the sole stipulation being that everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses Sweetland, whose ancestors founded the village, is the only one to refuse. As he watches his neighbors abandon the island, he recalls the town's rugged history and its eccentric cast of characters
- ISBN:
- 0871407906
- 9780871407900
- OCLC:
- 890798890
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