Hard Light

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
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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