Newfoundland is the setting for this story of how fate brings together a witty school boy who pursues socialist dreams and a popular newspaper columnist who writes about the history of the continent.
Read More
Newfoundland is the setting for this story of how fate brings together a witty school boy who pursues socialist dreams and a popular newspaper columnist who writes about the history of the continent.
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good. Hardcover This item shows wear from consistent use but remains in good readable condition. It may have marks on or in it, and may show other signs of previous use or shelf wear. May have minor creases or signs of wear on dust jacket. Packed with care, shipped promptly.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good in Fine jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Hardback First US Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. The history of Newfoundland, in the context of a romantic, historical novel, and also the biography of a real person, Joey Smallwood. Spine head and heel slightly compressed, otherwise in Fine Condition. Clean and unmarked blue and gray binding, tight and solid, square with sharp corners. Intenals as new. Endpapers with map of Newfoundland. 562 pages. 1.6 x 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 1999, Doubleday/Random House, USA.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Lge. 8vo 9 1/2"x 6" navy-blue cloth-tape w/ grey paper boards; lettering, w/ double-rule design, in gilt on spine; endpaper maps; 562 pgs; illus dust jacket w/ $24.95 on front flap, author photo by Jerry Bauer on rear; orig pub 1998 by Knopf Canada. quotes by Howard Norman, Andrea Barrett, Robert MacNeil, Annie Proulx & Thomas Mallon on back cover. jacket design by Jean Traina w/ art by Debra Lill.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very good in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 562 p. Audience: General/trade. A near fine copy in a fine, mylar protected DJ. Some bumping to top corners of boards; Signed by author on title page (signature only); 1st edition. 8vo., 562 pages.
Newfoundland is a Province of Canada, way out east, in the middle of the North Atlantic, a stone's throw from Ireland. Its people are eccentric and peculiar, its history similarly so. Joey Smallwood was the first Premier of Newfoundland when the rocky island joined Canada as a tenth province, rejecting independence from Britain or colonial status by popular referendum. This story should not be compelling reading, but it is. Most Americans know of Newfoundland only from Annie Proulx's "Shipping News," but here readers have an opportunity to read the "real stuff," actual Newfoundland characters put through actual historical events by a marvelous writer, in the form of a fictionalized autobiography of Joey Smallwood. Incidentally, for those interested in such things, it is also a great piece of neo- or post- colonial writing in the spirit of Naipaul, Keats, et al.
