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THE COLONY OF UNREQUITED DREAMS
de Johnston, Wayne
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385495420
- ISBN 13
- 9780385495424
- Librería
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Doubleday, 1999. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. Tall 8vo, dark blue quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over off-white boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) depicting a man trekking in a snowy forest by Debra Lill; map endpapers, 562 pages + [563-566: Acknowledgements & About the Author]. Weight: 2 lbs. 1 oz. Wayne Johnston (born 1958) is a Canadian novelist. His fiction deals primarily with Newfoundland and Labrador, often in a historical setting. In 2011 Johnston was awarded the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for his contribution to Canadian Literature.<br/> <br/> SUPERIOR COPY: tight, bright, clean in comparable dj. No marks by previous owners or remaindering.
Sinopsis
A mystery and a love story spanning five decades, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an epic portrait of passion and ambition, set against the beautiful, brutal landscape of Newfoundland. In this widely acclaimed novel, Johnston has created two of the most memorable characters in recent fiction: Joey Smallwood, who claws his way up from poverty to become New Foundland's first premier; and Sheilagh Fielding, who renounces her father's wealth to become a popular columnist and writer, a gifted satirist who casts a haunting shadow on Smallwood's life and career.The two meet as children at school and grow to realize that their lives are irreversibly intertwined, bound together by a secret they don't know they share. Smallwood, always on the make, torn between love of country and fear of failure, is as reluctant to trust the private truths of his heart as his rival and savior, Fielding--brilliant, hard-drinking, and unconventionally sexy. Their story ranges from small-town Newfoundland to New York City, from the harrowing ice floes of the seal hunt to the lavish drawing rooms of colonial governors, and combines erudition, comedy, and unflagging narrative brio in a manner reminiscent of John Irving and Charles Dickens. A tragicomic elegy for the "colony of unrequited dreams" that is Newfoundland, Wayne Johnston's masterful tribute to a people and a place establishes him as a novelist who is as profound as he is funny, with an impeccable sense of the intersection WHERE private lives and history collide.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Librería
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 7529
- Título
- THE COLONY OF UNREQUITED DREAMS
- Autor
- Johnston, Wayne
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth and boards
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First U.S. Edition, First Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0385495420
- ISBN 13
- 9780385495424
- Editorial
- Doubleday
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
- Palabras clave
- Newfoundland, private school, scholarship boy, lovers
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BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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