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The Innocents

✍ Scribed by Michael Crummey


Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2019
Tongue
en-US
Weight
162 KB
Edition
First edition
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis


"Gripping." --Emma Donoghue, author of Room
"Dazzling." --Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek
"Fantastic." --Kevin Powers, author of Yellow Birds and A Shout in the Ruins
"Brilliant." --Ron Rash, author of Serena
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.
"Page-turning...An unusual, gripping period novel." --Kirkus(starred review)
A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. 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...


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