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2001 Giller Prize Nominee2002 Amazon.Com/Books In Canada First Novel Award Shortlist: In River Thieves, His First Novel, Poet And Shortstory Writer Michael Crummey Reaches Far Into Newfoundlands Past To Tell One Of The Colonys Most Tragic Stories: The Extermination Of The Beothuk People. Through The Lives And Reminiscences Of Some Of The Colonys Most Prominent European Residentsdavid Buchan, A Naval Explorer And Idealist Who Attempts To Bring The Isolated Beothuks Into Productive Contact With The British Empire; John Peyton Jr., The Obedient Son Of A Relentlessly Patriarchal Local Trader; Cassie Jure, John Peyton Sr.S Literate, Aloof Housekeeper; And Joseph Reilly, A Transported Irish Thief And A Genuinely Decent Trappercrummey Recounts A Halfhearted Attempt, Foiled By The Colonys Petty Tensions, To Save The Beothuks. River Thieves Is An Oddly Meandering Novel, And This Is Its Greatest Appeal. Rather Than Offering A Grisly, Guiltridden Adventure Story That Rushes From Its Suitably Portentous Beginning To Its Inevitably Sombre End, Crummey Works With A Meandering Sort Of History, One That Has To Go Over The Same Events A Few Times Before They Begin To Give Up Their Secrets, Temporarily Leaving His Readers As Disoriented As His Benighted Characters. The Books Real Heartthe Beothuksnever Becomes Fully Articulate; The Beothuks Remain Buried On The Shore, Or Encamped Among The Snows Of Red Indian Lake. Anyone Who Wants This Kind Of Story To Come Equipped With Heroes And, Perhaps, Even Answers, Should Turn To Rudy Wiebe, But Crummeys Labyrinthine Approach Has Its Own Distinct Appeal. Jack Illingworth
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