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THE COLONY OF UNREQUITED DREAMS

THE COLONY OF UNREQUITED DREAMS

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THE COLONY OF UNREQUITED DREAMS

by Johnston, Wayne

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0385495420
ISBN 13
9780385495424
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New York: Doubleday, 1999. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. Tall 8vo, dark blue quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over off-white boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) depicting a man trekking in a snowy forest by Debra Lill; map endpapers, 562 pages + [563-566: Acknowledgements & About the Author]. Weight: 2 lbs. 1 oz. Wayne Johnston (born 1958) is a Canadian novelist. His fiction deals primarily with Newfoundland and Labrador, often in a historical setting. In 2011 Johnston was awarded the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for his contribution to Canadian Literature.<br/> <br/> SUPERIOR COPY: tight, bright, clean in comparable dj. No marks by previous owners or remaindering.

Synopsis

A mystery and a love story spanning five decades, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an epic portrait of passion and ambition, set against the beautiful, brutal landscape of Newfoundland. In this widely acclaimed novel, Johnston has created two of the most memorable characters in recent fiction: Joey Smallwood, who claws his way up from poverty to become New Foundland's first premier; and Sheilagh Fielding, who renounces her father's wealth to become a popular columnist and writer, a gifted satirist who casts a haunting shadow on Smallwood's life and career.The two meet as children at school and grow to realize that their lives are irreversibly intertwined, bound together by a secret they don't know they share. Smallwood, always on the make, torn between love of country and fear of failure, is as reluctant to trust the private truths of his heart as his rival and savior, Fielding--brilliant, hard-drinking, and unconventionally sexy. Their story ranges from small-town Newfoundland to New York City, from the harrowing ice floes of the seal hunt to the lavish drawing rooms of colonial governors, and combines erudition, comedy, and unflagging narrative brio in a manner reminiscent of John Irving and Charles Dickens. A tragicomic elegy for the "colony of unrequited dreams" that is Newfoundland, Wayne Johnston's masterful tribute to a people and a place establishes him as a novelist who is as profound as he is funny, with an impeccable sense of the intersection WHERE private lives and history collide.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Bookseller
Borg Antiquarian US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
7529
Title
THE COLONY OF UNREQUITED DREAMS
Author
Johnston, Wayne
Format/Binding
Cloth and boards
Book Condition
Used - Very Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First U.S. Edition, First Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0385495420
ISBN 13
9780385495424
Publisher
Doubleday
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1999
Keywords
Newfoundland, private school, scholarship boy, lovers

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