Michael Crummey
Michael Crummey was born in Buchans, a mining town in the interior of Newfoundland ("as far from the salt water as you can get and still be in Newfoundland"), second of four boys; he grew up there and in Wabush, another mining town near the Quebec border of Labrador. After completing a BA in English at Memorial University in St. John's, he moved to Kingston, Ontario to pursue graduate work but dropped out before finishing his Ph. D. He has taught ESL in China and worked at the International Day of Solidarity with the People of Guatemala. Now the author of...
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Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-385-67714-1 (0-385-67714-6)
January 14, 2014 | $18.95
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An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore 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...
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66315-1 (0-385-66315-3)
July 6, 2010 | $22.00
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Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore 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.
An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that...
eBook | pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-385-67242-9 (0-385-67242-X)
May 7, 2010 | $12.99
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From the author of the best-selling, Giller-nominated River Thieves comes a heartbreaking and masterful collection of short fiction.
With uncommon elegance and compassion, Michael Crummey has created a community of exiles, characters estranged from their home, from their families or, just as often, from themselves. Set largely in the small Newfoundland mining...
eBook | 432 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37488-2 (0-307-37488-2)
December 15, 2009 | $12.99
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In elegant, sensual prose, Michael Crummey crafts a haunting tale set in Newfoundland at the turn of the 19th century. A richly imagined story about love, loss and the heartbreaking compromises—both personal and political—that undermine lives, River Thieves is a masterful debut novel. Published in Canada and the United States, it...
eBook | 352 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37229-1 (0-307-37229-4)
August 11, 2009 | $12.99
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Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore 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.
An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that...
eBook | 368 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37329-8 (0-307-37329-0)
May 29, 2009 | $12.99
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Having achieved considerable success with his first novel, River Thieves, Michael Crummey has written a book that is equally stunning and compelling. The Wreckage is a truly epic, yet twisted, romance that unfolds over decades and continents. It engages readers on the austere shores of Newfoundland’s fishing villages and drags them...
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66061-7 (0-385-66061-8)
July 25, 2006 | $21.00
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Having achieved considerable success with his first novel, River Thieves, Michael Crummey has written a book that is equally stunning and compelling. The Wreckage is a truly epic, yet twisted, romance that unfolds over decades and continents. It engages readers on the austere shores of Newfoundland’s fishing villages and drags them...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-385-65927-7 (0-385-65927-X)
January 7, 2003 | $21.00
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From the author of the best-selling, Giller-nominated River Thieves comes a heartbreaking and masterful collection of short fiction.
With uncommon elegance and compassion, Michael Crummey has created a community of exiles, characters estranged from their home, from their families or, just as often, from themselves. Set largely in the small Newfoundland mining...
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-65817-1 (0-385-65817-6)
August 27, 2002 | $21.00
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In elegant, sensual prose, Michael Crummey crafts a haunting tale set in Newfoundland at the turn of the nineteenth century. A richly imagined story about love, loss and the heartbreaking compromises — both personal and political — that undermine lives, River Thieves is a masterful debut novel. To be published in...
Trade Paperback | 112 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry
978-0-7710-2471-9 (0-7710-2471-1)
March 26, 2002 | $16.99
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Salvage is a beautifully crafted new book of poems. It opens with a signpost alerting the reader to “Poems about Loss/ Next 100 Pages,” poems about loved ones, relationships, innocence, faith – all gone. But paradoxically people and events in Michael Crummey’s embrace are too vivid to fade away. Summer and...
