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Michael Crummey is an award-winning poet and novelist. He has published five poetry collections and the critically acclaimed novels The Innocents, River Thieves, The Wreckage, Galore and Sweetland. His novels have won or been shortlisted for numerous prizes internationally, including the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. The Adversary was a no. 1 bestseller in his native Canada and won the Dublin Literary Award. He lives in St John's, Newfoundland.
Authentic to the harshness of the world that Michael Crummey so brilliantly recreates * The Times, Historical Fiction Book of the Month * Michael Crummey writes like an avenging angel, never putting a word wrong -- Emma Donoghue, author of Room Immensely powerful and subtly ingenious * Washington Post * Ingeniously constructed and wound tight as a mainspring ... Flawless -- Wall Street Journal Has energy, empathy and a wickedly colourful way with words ... Crummey is a wise and unsparing writer whose understanding of human foibles retains a scrap of empathy even for his blackest creations -- Erica Wagner * Guardian *
