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Publisher
Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0385495420
ISBN-13
9780385495424
eBay Product ID (ePID)
521451
Product Key Features
Book Title
Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Historical
Publication Year
1999
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
32.7 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-019144
Reviews
Advance praise forThe Colony of Unrequited Dreamsby Wayne Johnston: "The Colony of Unrequited Dreamsis an indispensable masterpiece. It reshapes and animates history with luminous verisimilitude. Every page of Wayne Johnston's stunning novel displays the highest regard for his reader's intelligence and for the art of writing itself. I was only happy to finishThe Colony of Unrequited Dreamsbecause I then--and did so the next evening--could read it again. Mr. Johnston has genius in him, and I think haunting, unmitigated, uncanny vision and grace." --Howard Norman "This splendid, entertaining novel is both a version of David Copperfield transposed to twentieth-century Newfoundland and an evocation of vanished ways of life in a place caught in tumultuous political changes. Rich and complex, it offers Dickensian pleasures." --Andrea Barrett "I readThe Colony of Unrequited Dreamswith great pleasure and some astonishment at the craftsmanship and literary sleight of hand that can pack the history of a country into a romantic novel that is also the autobiography of a real person--and make it work. It is a magic storyteller who can impel you to read on and on, surrendering your will to such an original narrative. Like many former British colonies Newfoundland has found a literary voice, and hers is beginning to sound as pungent, as irrepressible, as idiosyncratic as Australia's. Wayne Johnston is a major contributor to that voice." --Robert MacNeil "Wayne Johnston is a brilliant and accomplished writer and his Newfoundland--boots and boats, rough politics and rough country, history and journalism--during the wild Smallwood years is vivid and sharp." --Annie Proulx "Wayne Johnston has performed a feat more remarkable than 'making it all seem real.' He's transformed some actual history (totally unknown to most Americans) into what seems completely the work of his prodigious imagination.The Colony of Unrequited Dreamsmay span the entire twentieth century, but--if I may pay it the highest compliment--it's a nineteenth-century novel. Johnston reminds us that politics, for all its squalor, is fit material for passion and suspense--and even so, he's smart enough to let a love story run off with his exceptional book." --Thomas Mallon
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
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Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Synopsis
"The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" is Newfoundland--that vast, haunting near-continent upon which the two lovers and adversaries of this miraculously inventive novel pursue their ambitions. Joey Smallwood, sprung from almost Dickensian privation, is a scholarship boy at a private school, where his ready wit bests the formidably tart-tongued Sheilagh Fielding. Their dual fates become forever linked by an anonymous letter to a local paper critical of the school--a letter whose mysterious authorship will weigh heavily on their lives. Driven by socialist dreams and political desire, Smallwood will walk a railroad line the breadth of Newfoundland in a journey of astonishing power and beauty, to unionize the workers--and make his name. Fielding, now a popular newspaper columnist, provides--in her journalism, her diaries, and her bleakly hilarious "Condensed History of Newfoundland"--a satirical and eloquent counternarrative to Smallwood's story. As the decades pass and Smallwood's rise converges with Newfoundland's emerging autonomy, these two vexed characters must confront their own frailties and secrets--and their mutual (if doomed) love. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams combines erudition, unflagging narrative brio, and emotional depth in a manner reminiscent of the best of Robertson Davies and John Irving. Set in a landscape already made familiar to American readers by Annie Proulx and Howard Norman, it establishes Wayne Johnston as a novelist who is as profound as he is funny, with an unerringly ironic sense of the intersection where private lives and history collide.
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PR9199.3.J599C65
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