Hard Light

- Authors
- Crummey, Michael
- Publisher
- Brick Books
- Tags
- poetry
- ISBN
- 9780919626959
- Date
- 1998-05-16T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 3.38 MB
- Lang
- en
In Hard Light , Michael Crummey retells and reinvents his father's stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery of a half century ago. Speaking through generations of storytellers, he conjures a world of hard toil and heavy weather, shot through with stoicism, grim humour, endurance, and love. This is writing that is supple and charged with intensity, language that vivifies --- electrifies --- whoever and whatever it describes.
"Michael Crummey's lucid, dexterous writing shies away from nothing, gives us the concrete particulars of daily life, the burials and butcheries, the night-time thoughts. He knows this world from the inside." -- John Steffler