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.
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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.
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Very good. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: A Novel Johnston, Wayne...SOFTCOVER CONDITION VERY GOOD--BY ANCHOR BOOKS--1998 COPYRIGHT-562 PAGES. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is a novel by Wayne Johnston, published on September 30, 1998 by Knopf... The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: A Novel Johnston, Wayne...SOFTCOVER CONDITION VERY GOOD--BY ANCHOR BOOKS--1998 COPYRIGHT-562 PAGES. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is a novel by Wayne Johnston, published on September 30, 1998 by Knopf Canada. Johnston The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: A Novel Johnston, Wayne...SOFTCOVER CONDITION VERY GOOD--BY ANCHOR BOOKS--1998 COPYRIGHT-562 PAGES. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is a novel by Wayne Johnston, published on September 30, 1998 by Knopf Canada. Johnston's breakthrough work, the novel was a Canadian bestseller, and was shortlisted for the 1998 Giller Prize and the 1998 Governor General's Award for English fiction
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.
