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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Innocents

The Innocents

Crummey, Michael

Paperback

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 198489823X
ISBN13: 9781984898234
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Oct 20 2020
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness.

A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family's boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by their mother and father to keep them alive. Still, they muddle through the severe round of the seasons, through years of meagre catches and storms and ravaging illness, their fierce loyalty to each other motivates and sustains them. But as seasons pass and they wade deeper into the mystery of their own natures, even that loyalty will be tested.

Richly imagined and compulsively readable, prizewinning author Michael Crummey's The Innocents is a riveting story of hardship and survival, and an unflinching exploration of the bond between brother and sister. By turns electrifying and heartbreaking, it is a testament to the bounty and barbarity of the world, to the wonders and strangeness of our individual selves.

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