The government has decided to buy the residents of Sweetland out for a handsome sum and then will relocate them to a place of their choice. However, 100% of the residents must sign on for the deal to proceed. Moses Sweetland is the last holdout and the townspeople are beginning to resent his obstina...
Moses Sweetland does not want to leave the island that has been his home most of his life when the government comes in to resettle the families there. He plots and plans to stay but will he?An interesting read. Moses is unforgettable. As the story moves forward with the resettlement plans, flashback...
It begins in fog. With Matthew Sweetland hearing voices "so indistinct he thought they might be imaginary". This scene from the past alerts readers that they should be concerned with the line between the real and the invented, and even more to the point, with how Sweetland views these states. For ...
Jeśli ktoś czuje niedosyt po "Stu latach samotności" Marqueza, powinien sięgnąć po dostatek, Crummey jest naprawdę dobry ;)
A magical realism story of Newfoundland that follows the exploits of two families and how they interconnect and the trials that follow them through the years. It's darkly funny at times and for the most part I enjoyed it. The people were well drawn and very vivid, for all that you go through about ...
This book was interesting but I think I have recently read to many tragic Irish stories so I didn't really enjoy the book very much. It was predictable in the sense that I knew heartbreak, infidelity, and dysfunctional families would prevail in the story; they did. Although this was set in Newfoun...
I was at first very nervous about reading this book at first because all I knew about it was that it had been compared to One Hundred Years of Solitude, which is one of only a small handful of books I’ve never been able to force myself to finish. I was very pleasantly surprised, because I absolutely...
So there is this albino who gets swallowed by a fish and then . . . Well, the then is a bit complicted, kinda like life. You have religious battles, you have a sex addicted priest, you got witch women, you have ghosts, you have adultry.There is even fish!Galore is one of those fantasy novels that p...
I was spellbound by this narrative. I can't remember the last time that I found a generational saga so overwhelmingiy good. (Hm, I think it was Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits.Quote: "They came finally to the consensus that life was a mystery and a wonder beyond human understanding, a conclusi...
Great. 8 1/2, maybe 9. At first, before I read it, I wondered if it would be too fantastical for my tastes. But no. He pulled it off. The magical or the legendary bits were just part of it. He smoothly integrated it so you feel, you know that they live this way of thinking. That even the un-real is ...
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