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Sweetland
First published 2014
About the book
For twelve generations, the inhabitants of a remote island in Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now, in the second decade of the 21st century, they are facing resettlement. They have each been offered a generous compensation package to leave the island for good. There’s just one proviso: everyone must go. Gradually, all of the residents surrender to the inevitable. All of the residents, that is, but one: old Moses Sweetland. Motivated in part by a sense of history and belonging, and concerned that his somewhat eccentric great-nephew will wilt on the mainland, Moses resists the coercion of family and friends in order to hold onto the only place he’s ever called home.
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As his options dwindle, Moses Sweetland concocts a scheme to remain the island’s only living resident. Cut off from the outside world, with the food supply diminishing and weather shredding away the last evidence of human habitation, Sweetland finds himself, finally, in the company of ghosts …Written with incomparable emotional power and depth, Sweetland is a story about loyalty and courage, about the human will to persist even when all hope seems lost.
Prizes
- 2016 Longlist
About the author
All 5 books by Michael CrummeySubjects
Catalogue record
- Author
- Crummey, Michael, 1965–
- Statement
- Sweetland / Michael Crummey.
Book facts
- ISBN
- 978-0-385-68221-3
4 more ISBNs
- 978-1-4104-7809-2
- 978-1-4721-1888-2
- 978-1-4721-1887-5
- 978-0-385-66316-8
- Records
- Open Library
