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- Title: Michael Crummey. Galore (Book Review)
- Author : Newfoundland and Labrador Studies
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 328 KB
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Michael Crummey. Galore. Doubleday Canada, 2009. 365 pp. CAN $32.95. ISBN 978-0385663144. WRITING A REVIEW of Michael Crummey's new novel Galore makes me long to be reading it again. It is difficult to do justice to a book that is so spellbinding, so lush and exhilarating and layered that the workaday world comes to a standstill when you immerse yourself in it. Many reviews of this novel will tell you that it is a book rife with folk legend and superstition, which it is. But more profoundly, this is a book about inheritance and memory: cultural, historical, genetic, geographical, mystical. Crummey has stated that he wanted to pack all of Newfoundland into one great bible of a book. He sought to create a compendium of Newfoundland folk stories told in the way his grandparents would have told them. In the course of this book, one is taken on an unfolding transgenerational tour, an epic spectacle that covers such topics as human inheritance, historical encryption, destiny, the unconscious, immortality, apocryphal genealogies, and the fading of remembrance, all of it imbued with the lingering odour of fish. "There's more to the world than what your little mind can swallow," one of the characters tells her doctor/husband towards the end of the book (265). The character might as well be speaking to readers. If this is seduction, well, Michael Crummey has managed it. There is evil, yes, and vengeance, and grief, but more than that there is deep-seated human need and love, belief and error, ignorance and frailty, fatality and a yearning for ancestral presence. "Where do you come from?" is not the question here, but rather, "Whom do you belong to?" Whose blood flows through your veins?... Whose destiny impinges on yours?
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