Synopses & Reviews
From the author of the best-selling, Giller-nominated
River Thieves comes a heartbreaking and masterful collection of short fiction.
With uncommon elegance and compassion, Michael Crummey has created a community of exiles, characters estranged from their home, from their families or, just as often, from themselves. Set largely in the small Newfoundland mining town of Black Rock, but straying as far west as Vancouver and as far east as China, these stories are subtle, stark portrayals of people alternately looking for or trying desperately to escape their place in the world.
A young boy confuses love and allegiance, then stumbles into the complexities of adulthood; a brother and sister fall in love with the same woman; a frustrated wife protests her husbands neglect by going on strike with the miners union; a lovers drug habit reunites a woman with the sister she has lost.
Anchor Books is proud to publish an expanded edition of Michael Crummeys brilliant collection Flesh and Blood, which includes three original stories written just for this edition. Graceful, affecting, and generous of spirit, these stories are unforgettable.
About the Author
Michael Crummey has written several books of poetry, a short-story collection, and a novel. He is the winner of Bronwen Wallace Award and was nominated for the 1998 Journey Prize. His best-selling and acclaimed first novel, River Thieves, was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Born in Buchans, Newfoundland, growing up there and in Wabush, Labrador, Michael Crummey now lives in St. Johns.
Table of Contents
Serendipity
After Image
Heartburn
Roots
Flesh
The Night Watchman
The Measure
Celestials
Diaspora
Break & Enter
Praxis
Continental Drift
Skin
Miracles
What Possessed Him
That Fall
Acknowledgements