Galore (2009) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Mary Tryphena Devine: the grand daughter of the widow Devine
• Patrick Devine: Add a description of this character.
• Levi Sellers
• Judah Devine
• Dr. Newman
• Abel
• Callum Devine
• Mr. Coaker
• Ann Hope
• Father Phelan
• Tryphie
• Lizzie
• Selina
• Henley
• John Withycombe
• Mrs. Gallery
• Esther
• Adelina
• Druce
• Absalom
• Barnaby Shambler
• James Woundy
• John Tom
• Hannah
• Azariah
• Dodge
• Martha
• Daniel Woundy
• Minnie
• Flossie
• Obediah
• John Blade
• Lazarus
• Amos
• Bride

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• “They spoke of days of plenty with wistful exaggeration, as if it was an ancient time they knew only thorugh stories generations old. My Jesus, the cod, the cod, the cod, that Crusade army of the North Atlantic, that irresistible undersea current of flesh, there was a fish in galore one time.”

• “They were practical and serious and outlandishly foreign. They described the deathly ill as wonderful sick. Anything brittle or fragile or tender was a nish, anything out of plumb or uneven was asquish. They called the Adam’s apple a kinkorn, referred to the Devil as Horn Man.”

• “They ‘d once shown the doctor a scarred vellum copy of the Bible that Jabez Trim had cut from a cod’s stomach nearly a century past, a relic so singluar and strange that Newman asked to see it whenever he visited...He felt at times he’d been transported to a medieval world that was still half fairy tales.”

• “You can’t bear the notion there’s more to the world than what you little mind can swallow, Bride told him.”

• “It was a bleak lesson, to be blessed with plenty only to learn that abundance could be a tool of destitution, and all through that fall people andoned the shore.”

• “Grovellors he called them. They were living the same miserable lives their fathers lived and their fathers’ fathers before them. The wealth of the nation made on their backs and every one of them content to beg at Levi Sellers’ door. They were backward and illiterate and happy to leave their children no hope of a better life.”

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• It’s the only thing the world gives us, you know. The right to say yes or no to love.

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• God spoke to no one, he knew that. God was scattered in the world and the word of God was a puzzle to be cobbled together out of hints and clues.

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• It was vanity, plain and simple, trying to hold what you loved a moment longer than God granted it. But he’d always been a vain man.

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• —I don’t remember being born, she said, and I won’t remember dying.

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• He was struck by the sensation she’d made it happen in some way, that his life was simply a story the old woman was making up in her head.

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• —From what I seen of the world, Reverend, motherhood is a certainty, but fatherhood is a subject of debate.

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• It was the oddest expression he’d learned on the shore. Now the once. The present twined with the past to mean soon, a bit later, some unspecified point in the future. As if it was all the same finally, as if time was a single moment endlessly circling on itself. Bride forever absent and always with him.

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• They came finally to the consensus that life was a mystery and a wonder beyond human understanding, a conclusion they were comfortable with though there was little comfort in the thought.

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• She felt she’d been delivered into a universe where everyone’s knowledge but hers was complete and there was no acceptable way to acquire information other than waiting for its uncertain arrival.

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• She felt as if she was being erased from the world one generation at a time, like sediment sieved out of water through a cloth. —You spend your days trying to make a life, Master Sellers, she said, and all you’re doing is building yourself a coffin.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• St. John
• England
• Newfoundland
• Europe
• Tolt Road
• States
• Cunico
• Connecticut
• France
• Hartford
• Gut
• London
• Labrador
• Great White
• Kerrivan
• America

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by 22 Britannia Road, and followed by Bossypants.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Michael Crummey (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Governor General's Literary Awards (Finalist, 2009: Fiction)
• Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award (Finalist, Shortlist)
• Winterset Prize (Finalist)
• Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award (Finalist, Shortlist)
• Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (2010: Caribbean and Canada)

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( C ) › Crummey, Michael
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary