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The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams( )
Author: Johnston, Wayne
ISBN:978-0-385-49542-4
Publication Date:Jun 1999
Publisher:The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Imprint:Doubleday
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $24.95
Book Description:

"The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" is Newfoundland--that vast, haunting near-continent upon which the two lovers and adversaries of this miraculously inventive novel pursue their ambitions. Joey Smallwood, sprung from almost Dickensian privation, is a scholarship boy at a private school, where his ready wit bests the formidably tart-tongued Sheilagh Fielding. Their dual fates become forever linked by an anonymous letter to a local paper critical of the school--a letter whose mysterious...
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Book Details
Pages:576
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.44 x 9.43 x 1.63 Inches
Book Weight:2.038 Pounds
Author Biography
Johnston, Wayne (Author)
Wayne Johnston was born in Goulds, Newfoundland in 1958. He graduated with a B.A. in English from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1978. He worked from 1978-1981 as a newspaper reporter with the St. John's Daily News. In 1981, he decided to write fiction full-time. In 1983, he graduated with an M.A. in creative writing from the University of New Brunswick. His first book, The Story of Bobby O'Malley, won the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1985. His other works include The Divine Ryans, which won the 1991 Thomas Head Raddall Award and was adapted into a movie, Baltimore's Mansion, which won the Charles Taylor Prize, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, The Navigator of New York, and The Custodian of Paradise.

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