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The Custodian of Paradise: A Novel
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Johnston's excellent Colony of Unrequited Dreams featured Joey Smallwood
with Sheilagh Fielding as a strong secondary presence. This novel
reverses that order--it features Sheilagh Fielding with Joey Smallwood
more in the background. This is not a book that you can hurry through--
think of a cup of very hot, very rich coffee-... »
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The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: A Novel
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In 1949, Joseph Smallwood became the first premier of the newly federated Canadian province of Newfoundland. Predictably, and almost immediately, his name retreated to the footnotes of history. And yet, as Wayne Johnston makes plain in his epic and affectionate fifth novel, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Smallwood's life was endearingly emblem... »
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The Navigator of New York
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After enjoying my first exposure to Wayne Johnston with his latest, The Custodian of Paradise, I rushed to the local library to delve into some of his prior works. This one was a mistake. I'm experiencing a regrettable deja vu in The Navigator of New York, with the plot device of a teenager discovering, via surreptitiously conveyed and lengthy lette... »
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World of Wonders (Penguin Classics)
The theme of the novel "World of Wonders" by Robertson Davies, is "search for self"(Warlton 4) Through ought the novel, there is a constant search for who... »
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Human Amusements
Canadian author Johnston forsakes his native Newfoundland for 1960s Toronto to tell a more urban story of growing up in the early heyday of television -- ... »
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The Divine Ryans
Nine-year-old Draper Doyle Ryan, sole male heir to the once-venerable Ryan name, seems an unlikely family savior. Harried by his own frantic hormones, flu... »
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