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The Adversary

Autor Michael Crummey
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In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the shore when the Widow Caines arrives to throw the wedding and Abe's plans into chaos. That ruthless act of sabotage is the opening salvo in a battle between the man and woman who own Mockbeggar's largest mercantile firms, each fighting for the scarce resources of the north Atlantic fishery, each seeking a measure of revenge on the person they despise most in the world. As their unshakeable animosity spirals further each year into vendettas and violence, the community is increasingly divided and even the innocents in Mockbeggar find themselves forced to take sides, with devastating consequences. Through merciless seasons of uncertainty and want, through predatory storms and pandemics and marauding privateers, it is the human heart that reveals itself to be the most formidable and unpredictable adversary for each person drawn, inevitably and helplessly, into that endless feud. Compulsively readable and uncompromising, The Adversary is a pitch-perfect evocation of a lost time, and a shadowed mirror to our modern politics of grievance and retribution. It is Michael Crummey's finest novel to date.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780385685467
ISBN-10: 0385685467
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 130 x 202 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Penguin Random House Group
Colecția Vintage Canada
Locul publicării:Canada

Notă biografică

Michael Crummey is an award-winning poet and novelist. He has published five poetry collections and the critically acclaimed novels The Innocents, River Thieves, The Wreckage, Galore and Sweetland. His novels have won or been shortlisted for numerous prizes internationally, including the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. The Adversary was a no. 1 bestseller in his native Canada and won the Dublin Literary Award. He lives in St John's, Newfoundland.

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Authentic to the harshness of the world that Michael Crummey so brilliantly recreates
Michael Crummey writes like an avenging angel, never putting a word wrong
Immensely powerful and subtly ingenious
Ingeniously constructed and wound tight as a mainspring ... Flawless
Has energy, empathy and a wickedly colourful way with words ... Crummey is a wise and unsparing writer whose understanding of human foibles retains a scrap of empathy even for his blackest creations