This note discusses Michael Crummey’s Sweetland (), a tough, beautifully written novel which offers a grim view of a settler community, left behind on the island by the history which brought it into existence in an earlier period of migration and www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. · Sweetland, the novel, is a compelling depiction of a community in its final days, coming together and coming apart simultaneously. Drawing on history, memory and Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. · Sweetland by Michael Crummey is a work of art, a masterpiece, brilliant for its humanity. When a person is emotionally tied to the land they live on, money for that land is of little or no appeal. Such is the case with Moses Sweitlund, a stubborn man /5.
Sweetland Michael Crummey, Liveright Publishing pp. ISBN Summary The epic tale of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction. The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Sweetland is a novel by Canadian author Michael Crummey. It's set on an island in Newfoundland and tells the story of Moses Sweetland, who lives there. The island has been going through tough economic times, so the government offers to relocate people from the island to other places around Canada. Evoking The Shipping News, Michael Crummey--one of Canada's finest novelists--conjures up the mythical, sublime world of Sweetland's past amid a stormbattered landscape haunted by local lore. As in his critically acclaimed novel Galore, Crummey masterfully weaves together past and present, creating in Sweetland a spectacular portrait of one man.
In previous novels such as the award-winning Galore, Michael Crummey has depicted his homeland, the Canadian province of Newfoundland, as a place where myths and legends can come to life. Sweetland shares the same setting and Crummey depicts a place that is itself about to become nothing more than a distant memory. Sweetland is a tiny (fictional) island off the coast of Newfoundland, dependent on the government ferry for the transportation of supplies and people to and from the mainland. Sweetland is a novel by Canadian author Michael Crummey, first published in by W.W. Norton Company. Set on a small island in Newfoundland, it tells the story of an old man who has the same name as the island on which he lives: Sweetland. Michael Crummey’s latest novel is the tale of a man living on a small, imaginary island off Newfoundland’s southern coast, the eponymous Sweetland, a couple of years ago.
0コメント