![]() ![]() ![]() These people are stubborn, tenacious and passionate. His masterfully precise, image-filled prose jumps across the decades, linking people and filling in their pasts with a parade of rich yet succinct incidents. Crummey draws his large cast of Irish immigrant characters with dark humour, blending the comic and the grotesque. ![]() The central characters are the Devine and the Sellers families, whose members hold decades-long grudges yet also fall in love with each other. Like the locale, the inhabitants often have Biblical names: Judah, Lazarus, Abel and Absalom among them. That kind of magical storytelling fills the book – just named a finalist for the Governor General’s award – set in the small fishing town of Paradise Deep and covering six generations of townsfolk through the 19th and into the 20th century. Within the first few pages of Newfoundland writer Michael Crummey’s latest novel, Galore, an albino man is born from the side of a beached whale. ![]() GALORE by Michael Crummey (Doubleday Canada), 336 pages, $32.95. ![]()
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