This is a wonderful book. Michael Crummey is the author. Buy it and read it with pleasure. Newfoundland is the place, and within one small volume you find all about Newfoundland, the past and the problems, all tied together with one family encompassing about one hundred years, ending in 1919. The characters are interesting and outrageous, the myths and stories true and unbelievable, but always interesting. The book is ridiculous and riveting.
Michael Crummey was born and raised and lives in St. John's, NFL. By his picture he looks sixteen, but he actually is a young man with a wife and children. "Galore" is his fifth book. In early August he visited the Port Medway Literary Group, to talk about the book and read some of his works. I would love to have been there and hear how he learned about all these stories. One author who was present asked him what he was writing now, and Michael responded that he was having trouble getting away from "Galore", which is understandable. "After writing a book such "Galore', you may never write another such dramatic book", said the author from the audience. Evidently, everyone laughed, including Michael, but I thought it a terrible comment. Creative people always have the anxiety that the last piece may be the end of their ideas.
For me, I will now read his other works, and hope that he gets over "Galore', and gets on with his next project.
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