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An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, "Galore" is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that was rural Newfoundland, a place almost too harrowing and extravagant to be real. Remote and isolated, exposed to savage extremes of climate and fate, the people of Paradise Deep persist in a realm where the line between the everyday and the otherworldly is impossible to distinguish. Propelled by the disputes and alliances, grievances and trade-offs that bind the Sellers and Devine families through generations, "Galore" is alive with singular characters, and an uncommon insight into the complexities of human nature. Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, "Galore" is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us. This is Michael Crummey's most ambitious and accomplished work to date.
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Crummey's expansive yarn begins mysteriously, when a mute albino is pulled from the belly of a whale...though encompassing ghosts, curses, a girl with webbed fingers, and prematurely geriatric children, Crummey's story resolves into the tale of two intertwined clans, the Sellers and the Devines, one the political patriarchs and the other endowed with, Crummey insinuates, a touch of magic. (New Yorker)
A glittering, fabulist tale ... reminiscent of the work of Jean Giono, particularly Joy of Man's Desiring, and Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, Galore is a tale in which humans are confronted with the miraculous. (LA Times)
Like the two-faced ocean they pull their living from, Crummey's characters in this multi-generational unwinding are icy and surprising. The denizens of Paradise Deep and its neighboring town, the Gut, end up as twisted as the wind-tortured trees, making for a quirky quilt of personalities that might remind a reader of Annie Proulx's The Shipping News. (Washington Post)
Crummey lovingly carves out the privation and inner intricacies that mark his characters' lives with folkloric embellishments and the precision of the finest scrimshaw (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
This is the book that will win Crummey a permanent place in American readers' hearts. With Galore he has done something much more besides writing a compulsively readable book. He has created an unforgettable place of the imagination. Paradise Deep belongs on the same literary map as Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha and García Márquez's Macondo. (Boston Globe)
Crummey's prose is glorious throughout, unflinchingly honest and unsentimentally magical ... the effect is dazzling. (Library Journal (starred review))
Crummey delivers a dense, sprawling tale of two families bound together by love, secrets, fate, and a mysterious stranger ... Spanning two centuries of Canadian history and presented in Garcia Marquez-inspired magical realism fashion, Crummey's ambitious story of immigrant settlement, family alliances and clashes, heroism and failure is deeply moving and disquieting, sure to make some waves. (Booklist)
In grand language and colorful storytelling, Michael Crummey traces through several generations the fortunes of two families from the outport of Paradise Deep in Newfoundland ...This is a book to savor. You won't want to miss any of its delights: the tightly braided narrative skeins, the pathos and humor of the characters, the exotic flavor of a long ago time and place. (Minneapolis StarTribune)
Out of the belly of a whale, Michael Crummey pulls the marvelous story of Paradise Deep, a remote settlement on the northern Newfoundland coast, a place 'too severe and formidable, too provocative, too extravagant and singular and harrowing to be real,' teeming with fierce rivalries, affections, and loyalties spanning five intertwined generations ... rendered in language so gorgeously raw, it will transport you to a land whose sky is 'alive with the northern lights, the roiling seines of green and red like some eerily silent music to accompany the suffering below. (Mari Malcolm, Amazon.com Best of the Month)
The legacy of Paradise Deep and The Gut reaches off the page like a hand from some other time ... Crummey's soon-to-be admirers will be dazzled by the sprawling and vivid vision of Newfoundland he paints. (Electric Literature)
Michael Crummey's Galore is the rare historical novel that combines exhaustive research, magical realism, and a true sense of place that envelops the reader. Set in Newfoundland over two centuries, this story of two families is wildly imaginative, expertly told, and genuinely moving. (David Gutowski, (Largehearted Boy))
Galore is the kind of epic that swallows its reader whole: the Newfoundland of the novel is so vivid in its sights, sounds, and smells - even the unpleasant ones, like a character who carries the permanent reek of rotting fish - that I was engrossed to the point of forgetting the world. (Steve Himmer, author of The Bee-Loud Glade)
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A glittering, fabulist tale ... reminiscent of the work of Jean Giono, particularly Joy of Man's Desiring, and Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, Galore is a tale in which humans are confronted with the miraculous. (LA Times)
Like the two-faced ocean they pull their living from, Crummey's characters in this multi-generational unwinding are icy and surprising. The denizens of Paradise Deep and its neighboring town, the Gut, end up as twisted as the wind-tortured trees, making for a quirky quilt of personalities that might remind a reader of Annie Proulx's The Shipping News. (Washington Post)
Crummey lovingly carves out the privation and inner intricacies that mark his characters' lives with folkloric embellishments and the precision of the finest scrimshaw (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
This is the book that will win Crummey a permanent place in American readers' hearts. With Galore he has done something much more besides writing a compulsively readable book. He has created an unforgettable place of the imagination. Paradise Deep belongs on the same literary map as Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha and García Márquez's Macondo. (Boston Globe)
Crummey's prose is glorious throughout, unflinchingly honest and unsentimentally magical ... the effect is dazzling. (Library Journal (starred review))
Crummey delivers a dense, sprawling tale of two families bound together by love, secrets, fate, and a mysterious stranger ... Spanning two centuries of Canadian history and presented in Garcia Marquez-inspired magical realism fashion, Crummey's ambitious story of immigrant settlement, family alliances and clashes, heroism and failure is deeply moving and disquieting, sure to make some waves. (Booklist)
In grand language and colorful storytelling, Michael Crummey traces through several generations the fortunes of two families from the outport of Paradise Deep in Newfoundland ...This is a book to savor. You won't want to miss any of its delights: the tightly braided narrative skeins, the pathos and humor of the characters, the exotic flavor of a long ago time and place. (Minneapolis StarTribune)
Out of the belly of a whale, Michael Crummey pulls the marvelous story of Paradise Deep, a remote settlement on the northern Newfoundland coast, a place 'too severe and formidable, too provocative, too extravagant and singular and harrowing to be real,' teeming with fierce rivalries, affections, and loyalties spanning five intertwined generations ... rendered in language so gorgeously raw, it will transport you to a land whose sky is 'alive with the northern lights, the roiling seines of green and red like some eerily silent music to accompany the suffering below. (Mari Malcolm, Amazon.com Best of the Month)
The legacy of Paradise Deep and The Gut reaches off the page like a hand from some other time ... Crummey's soon-to-be admirers will be dazzled by the sprawling and vivid vision of Newfoundland he paints. (Electric Literature)
Michael Crummey's Galore is the rare historical novel that combines exhaustive research, magical realism, and a true sense of place that envelops the reader. Set in Newfoundland over two centuries, this story of two families is wildly imaginative, expertly told, and genuinely moving. (David Gutowski, (Largehearted Boy))
The singular world [Crummey] creates is special ... A lively, eccentric, mythmaking novel.
[A] highly imaginative, superbly crafted folkloric tale that blends with great ease strands of supernatural magic of old fairy tales and beliefs into a chronicle of the early colonists' precarious existence.
Michael Crummey is a passionate storyteller. His world is intensely imagined and starkly real. Life leaps off the pages of Galore.
Michael Crummey's Galore is a fabulous, fable-filled ball of yarns such as I've never encountered before. Tall, but plausible tales, odd, eccentric but weirdly familiar characters, dialogue straight out of the mouths of outport Newfoundlanders, historicized fiction, fictionalized history - it has, as its title suggests, a super-abundance of good things. This is art, but not art full of solemn, self-importance. Galore is artfully, and seriously, entertaining.
Gratitude galore for Galore, a book so alive with enchantment I should not be surprised if it crawled right out of my hands and into the sea. Truly, a fantastic read.
Galore is the kind of epic that swallows its reader whole: the Newfoundland of the novel is so vivid in its sights, sounds, and smells - even the unpleasant ones, like a character who carries the permanent reek of rotting fish - that I was engrossed to the point of forgetting the world. (Steve Himmer, author of The Bee-Loud Glade)
Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us. It was shortlisted for the IMPAC and Commonwealth Writers Prize.
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- PublisherCorsair
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 178033866X
- ISBN 13 9781780338668
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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