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The innocents : a novel / Michael Crummey.

By: Publisher: [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, [2019]Copyright date: �2019Description: 285 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0385685416
  • 9780385685412
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • FIC
Summary: A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family's boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by their mother and father to keep them. As they fight for their own survival through years of meagre catches and storms and ravaging illness, it is their fierce loyalty to each other that motivates and sustains them. But as seasons pass and they wade deeper into the mystery of their own natures, even that loyalty will be tested.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Fiction Flesherton Branch Shelves FIC Crumm (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 32241001120726
Fiction Kimberley Branch Shelves FIC Crumm (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 36990002028397
Fiction Markdale Branch Shelves FIC Crumm (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 33436003136071

A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family's boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by their mother and father to keep them. As they fight for their own survival through years of meagre catches and storms and ravaging illness, it is their fierce loyalty to each other that motivates and sustains them. But as seasons pass and they wade deeper into the mystery of their own natures, even that loyalty will be tested.

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