Sweetland A Novel [Hardcover]

PartWhen the government orders that the population of Sweetland, an isolated and insular town on a remote Canadian island, must relocate, Moses Sweetland, whose ancestors settled the town, refuses. The novel unfolds as he remembers the islands folklore and his familys history, while watching his neighbors leave their homes. Beautifully capturing the wild, rugged landscape, Crummey has written a novel about love for the land one is from.An evocative portrait of a disappearing way of life,The latest novel by the Canadian Michael Crummey tells a slow-burning, ultimately moving story about a man and a town, both calledMoses is a memorably strong-willed character& [The elimination of an entire community, and what it represents, is deeply felt. Through its crusty protagonist, Crummey's shrewd, absorbing novel tells us how rich a life can be, even when experienced in the narrowest of physical confines.Impetuous and imperious, Moses Sweetland is an extraordinary, beautifully realized character, and the supporting castincluding Queenie Coffin, a chain-smoking romance-novel addict who hasnt left her house in four decades; and the feral Priddle brothers, Irish twins born 10 months apartare scarcely less so. ButMichael Crummey'sWry, touching, and filled with insights into the modern human condition, Michael Crummeys spare and sturdy prose inThe epic tale of an endangeredNewfoundland community and thestruggles of one man determined toresist its extinction.