One-on-One with Michael Crummey
One-on-One with Michael Crummey
Saturday, October 18, 2014 • 1-2pm
Theatre Junction Grand – Flanagan Theatre
Tickets: $15
$13 seniors, students and friends of CJSW
In conversation with Jennifer Keene, Michael Crummey presents Sweetland, shortlisted for a 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award. The novel is an epic tale of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction.
Evoking The Shipping News, Michael Crummey—one of Canada’s finest novelists—conjures up the mythical, sublime world of Sweetland’s past amid a storm-battered landscape haunted by local lore.
Born in Buchans, Newfoundland, Michael Crummey is a poet and author of short stories and novels including the collections Under the Keel and Galore, which won the Commonwealth Prize for Canada.
Sponsored by DoubledayCanada.
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