The Adversary by Crummey, Michael

The Adversary (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780385550321)

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The Adversary by Crummey, Michael

The Adversary

$29.00
The Adversary by Crummey, Michael

The Adversary

$29.00
Format: Hardcover
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An enthralling novel about the corruption of power and the power of corruption from one of our greatest writers, the award-winning, bestselling author of The Innocents

"POTENT...A VIBRANT HISTORICAL NARRATIVE"--The New Yorker

"A FLAWLESSLY CRAFTED NARRATIVE" --Wall Street Journal

"MASTERPIECE" --Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review)

"CEASELESSLY ENTERTAINING" --Kirkus (Starred Review)

"ONE OF OUR BEST WRITERS" --Booklist (Starred Review)

In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the shore when the Widow Caines arrives to throw the wedding and Abe's plans into chaos.

That ruthless act of sabotage is the opening salvo in a battle between the man and woman who own Mockbeggar's largest mercantile firms, each fighting for the scarce resources of the north Atlantic fishery, each seeking a measure of revenge on the person they despise most in the world. As their unshakeable animosity spirals further each year into vendettas and violence, the community is increasingly divided and even the innocents in Mockbeggar find themselves forced to take sides, with devastating consequences.

Through merciless seasons of uncertainty and want, through predatory storms and pandemics and marauding privateers, it is the human heart that reveals itself to be the most formidable and unpredictable adversary for each person drawn, inevitably and helplessly, into that endless feud.

Compulsively readable and uncompromising, The Adversary is a masterful evocation of a lost time, and a shadowed mirror to our modern politics of grievance and retribution.

Author: Michael Crummey
ISBN-10: 0385550324
ISBN-13: 9780385550321
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2024
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.83w x 1.09d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2023 pg. 2
Publishers Weekly 10/23/2023
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2023
Library Journal 01/01/2024 pg. 65
Booklist 01/01/2024 pg. 37
By Michael Crummey
By Michael Crummey
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MICHAEL CRUMMEY is an award-winning poet and storyteller. Crummey was born in Buchans, a mining town in the interior of Newfoundland. He is the bestselling author of five critically acclaimed novels, The Innocents, River Thieves, The Wreckage, Galore, and Sweetland, as well as five collections of poetry. His novels have won or been shortlisted for many prizes, including the Giller Prize, the Governor-General's Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and his books have sold more than 225,000 copies in North America. He lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.

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