In comparison, I address how Richard Flanagan’s Gould’s Book of Fish, in its retelling of the Tasmanian settler story, works to expose the myths of foundational and historical narratives and explore the impact that these forged narratives have on identity-formation in the present. Specifically, I will look at how Michael Crummey’s Galore uses folklore to tell a founding story of Newfoundland – a place where the impulse to recover a lost past is still strong, and where efforts to do so contribute to the region’s dominant culture industry.

It was so easy to feel the grinding poverty of life in 18th & 19th century Newfoundland. On July 6th, 2012 at 7:52 pm Debbie Says: Michael Crummey’s prose is well, wonderful, BIP. I felt like he inhabited the prose in telling this story, which made me feel more a part of it, too. An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, ''''Galore'''' is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that was rural. Dense with allusion and allegory, six generations of intertwined family history encapsulates the folk history of coastal Newfoundland as the tiny settlement. This is Michael Crummey's most ambitious and accomplished work to date. When a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, the last thing any of the. The brilliant new collection from Michael Crummey, bestselling author of Galore. This thesis seeks to investigate the ways in which a novel from Newfoundland and a novel from Tasmania use history and myth to reimagine their colonial beginnings in light of recent debates about finding and defining regional and national identity. I admired Marquez’s novel, but I loved Galore. Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, ''''Galore'''' is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us.

Galore by michael crummey