{"product_id":"galore-9781780336183","title":"Galore","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, \u003ci\u003eGalore\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePropelled by the disputes and alliances, grievances and trade-offs that bind the Sellers and Devine families through generations, \u003ci\u003eGalore\u003c\/i\u003e is alive with singular characters, and an uncommon insight into the complexities of human nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, \u003ci\u003eGalore\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA glittering, fabulist tale...reminiscent of the work of Jean Giono, particularly \u003ci\u003eJoy of Man's Desiring\u003c\/i\u003e, and Laura Esquivel's \u003ci\u003eLike Water for Chocolate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGalore\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale in which humans are confronted with the miraculous. * Los Angeles Times *\u003cbr\u003ea well written, deftly orchestrated, consistently entertaining novel. * TLS *\u003cbr\u003e[An] expansive yarn...in lilting prose. * The New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003eLike 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Shipping News\u003c\/i\u003e. * The Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eThis is the book that will win Crummey a permanent place in American readers' hearts. With \u003ci\u003eGalore\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Garcia Marquez's Macondo. * The Boston Globe *\u003cbr\u003eGhosts, gangsters, mermen, and a Christ-like healer who emerges from the belly of a beached whale are among the attractions in a boisterous, one-of-a-kind folk epic about feuding intermarried clans in Newfoundland . . . A lively, eccentric, mythmaking novel inspired by two hundred years of Canadian history. * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eNewfoundland author Crummey's award-winning third novel . . . affirms that our lives are always astonishing. It's been justly compared to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e. It also calls to mind Graham Swift's \u003ci\u003eWaterland\u003c\/i\u003e and Alexis Wright's \u003ci\u003eCarpentaria\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as William Faulkner's epic Compson novels, and will appeal to readers who enjoyed those works. (starred review) * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003eMythic and gorgeous . . . Crummey lovingly carves out the privation and inner intricacies that mark his characters' lives with folkloric embellishments and the precision of the finest scrimshaw. (starred review) * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eMichael Crummey is a passionate storyteller. His world is intensely imagined and starkly real. Life leaps off the pages of \u003ci\u003eGalore\u003c\/i\u003e. -- Jane Mendelsohn, New York Times bestselling author","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771438530903,"sku":"9781780336183","price":22.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781780336183.jpg?v=1758727865","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/galore-9781780336183","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}