The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams
  • Published: 31 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446465578
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 576

The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams

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An indispensable masterpiece' Howard Norman, author of The Bird Artist

Wayne Johnston is a brilliant and accomplished writer' Annie Proulx

Shortlisted for two major literary awards in Canada, Wayne Johnston's epic novel of his native Newfoundland has been universally praised in the United States and in Britain. Taking the career of Newfoundland's first premier, Joseph Smallwood, as its starting point, it is a mystery, a love story and a tragi-comic elegy to an impossible country stranded on the brink of the world.

'Ambitious and sweeping . . . it weaves around Smallwood a glowing fiction threaded through with the story of the island itself. As with The Shipping News, the unforgiving landscape of the island is wonderfully captured' Dominic Bradbury, The Times

'An insider's paean of love and regret for his vanished land' Marcel Berlins, National Post (Ottowa)

'Mesmerizing . . . a novel of cavernous complexity that nevertheless doesn't overwhelm the reader, who can repose in pure narrative without a second thought' Luc Sante, New York Times Book Review

'A long, impassioned, absorbing novel . . . bravura storytelling' Denis Drabelle, Washington Post
  • Published: 31 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446465578
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 576
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About the author

Wayne Johnston

Wayne Johnston is the author of several novels, including the internationally acclaimed The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, published in 1999 and shortlisted for both the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award, and The Divine Ryans, which has been filmed starring Pete Postlethwaite. Wayne Johnston was born in Newfoundland, Canada.

Also by Wayne Johnston

A World Elsewhere
The Divine Ryans
Baltimore's Mansion
The Navigator Of New York
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Praise for The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams

'An indispensible masterpiece' HOWARD NORMAN

'Johnston's skill at marrying the political and historical with the personal and a spell-binding sense of place is remarkable' New Statesman

'Uncompromisingly original yet accessible, it makes us feel at home in a place about as different from here as could be' LA Times

'Ambitious and sweeping...a glowing fiction threaded through with the story of the island itself. As with The Shipping News, the unforgiving landscape is wonderfully captured' The Times

'An anti-epic about Newfoundland: its loss of national status, its first Premier and, most of all, its harsh, desolate landsape... mesmerizing' New York Times

'Brilliant and accomplished' ANNIE PROULX

'A hymn to the human spirit...Quite stunning' Independent