Two children, orphaned at a young age, alone on a barren cove of the Newfoundland coast. Michael Crummey’s harshly beautiful new novel "The Innocents" (Doubleday, 304 pp., ★★★½ out of four stars) ...
It likely has something to do with my surname and birth order, but I’ve always felt sympathy for Cain, the dutiful older child whose sacrifice was rejected by Yahweh, that tetchy deity, tipping the ...
Trudging across the same harsh, icy fictional terrain that's fired the imagination of such writers as William Vollman, Andrea Barrett and Wayne Johnston, Crummey, an award-winning poet (Arguments with ...
“The cemetery ground was hard as flint and the dead were salted with chopped ice in their coffins and kept in a storage room at the fort until graves could be dug in the spring.” In Michael Crummey’s ...
The Innocents. By Michael Crummey. Doubleday; 289 pages; $26.95. EVERED AND Ada Best are “still youngsters” when their parents die, leaving them alone on the bleak Newfoundland coast. “They were left ...
Crummey (The Innocents) offers a spellbinding novel of cutthroat sibling rivalry in remote late-19th-century Mockbeggar, Newfoundland, where the desolation of the “gaunt, ascetic coastline” is as much ...
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