Sweetland

The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package--the sole stipulation being that everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses Sweetland, whose ancestors founded the village, is the only one to refuse. As he watches his neighbors abandon the island, he recalls the town's rugged history and its eccentric cast of characters. Evoking The Shipping News, Michael Crummey--one of Canada's finest novelists--conjures up the mythical, sublime world of Sweetland's past amid a stormbattered landscape haunted by local lore. As in his critically acclaimed novel Galore, Crummey masterfully weaves together past and present, creating in Sweetland a spectacular portrait of one man's battle to survive as his environment vanishes around him.

Winner of Newfoundland Book Award

Short-listed for the Governor's General Award

Winner of the CBC Bookie Award for Fiction

Finalist for the Winterset Prize

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 01/19/2015
ISBN: 9780871407900
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2014 pg. 60
Publishers Weekly 09/08/2014
Booklist 11/01/2014 pg. 24
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2014
Shelf Awareness 01/20/2015
BookPage 01/01/2015
New York Times Book Review 03/22/2015 pg. 30
Library Journal 08/01/2014