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Though there is plenty of love, death, longing, and heartbreak in the stories, Crummey (River Thieves) manages to avoid sentimentality through earthy humor and a sharp eye for detail and striking similes, as in this view of Cabot Tower on Signal Hill in St. John's: "The stone tower was floodlit with stark white light, as if the building was being subjected to some relentless interrogation." Above all, Crummey creates characters that are fully human. He also knows when to stop: in story after story, he finds the perfect culmination, the line that explains just enough but not too much. A fine collection. --Mark Frutkin, Amazon.ca
Flesh & Blood contains thirteen linked stories set in the mining town of Black Rock, Newfoundland, where the dust clears on a people undeniably altered by what lies beneath a foreboding surface. In a perfect blend of humour, miracle and truth, Crummey portrays men and women scattered across the country who return in duty or in faith to the origin of it all-a place which has set into motion a series of betrayals, secrets and misdemeanors that continue to haunt them. They inspire not so much for their hardiness as for their persistence, for the tenacity they display in blundering through, or gracefully recovering, the joy and redemption that is surely theirs.
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