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The Wreckage

by Michael Crummey
Mary Lewis
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From the award-winning author of River Thieves comes a sweeping novel of love crossed by the blindness of faith and fate.
 
In a remote Newfoundland outpost at the onset of the Second World War, the young Catholic Wish Furey meets the passionate, independent sixteen-year-old Protestant Sadie Parsons. They begin an intense affair that is cut short as prejudice and mistrust drive Wish away, into the British Army and the war. At home in Newfoundland, Sadie turns her back on her family and moves to St. John's to wait for Wish—until she receives word that he is dead.
 
Fifty years later, Sadie returns to Newfoundland to scatter her American husband's ashes and to face her past—one that will come to meet her as she never imagined.
 
Masterfully crafted, The Wreckage is both compulsively readable and a penetrating study of the reach and limits of love, the depths of human hatred, and the ultimate impossibility of knowing another or oneself.
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Publisher: Doubleday Canada Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780385694155
  • File size: 361593 KB
  • Release date: August 27, 2019
  • Duration: 12:33:19

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780385694155
  • File size: 361642 KB
  • Release date: August 27, 2019
  • Duration: 12:40:19
  • Number of parts: 14

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Fiction Literature Historical Fiction

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English

From the award-winning author of River Thieves comes a sweeping novel of love crossed by the blindness of faith and fate.
 
In a remote Newfoundland outpost at the onset of the Second World War, the young Catholic Wish Furey meets the passionate, independent sixteen-year-old Protestant Sadie Parsons. They begin an intense affair that is cut short as prejudice and mistrust drive Wish away, into the British Army and the war. At home in Newfoundland, Sadie turns her back on her family and moves to St. John's to wait for Wish—until she receives word that he is dead.
 
Fifty years later, Sadie returns to Newfoundland to scatter her American husband's ashes and to face her past—one that will come to meet her as she never imagined.
 
Masterfully crafted, The Wreckage is both compulsively readable and a penetrating study of the reach and limits of love, the depths of human hatred, and the ultimate impossibility of knowing another or oneself.
Expand title description text
Fiction Literature Historical Fiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Doubleday Canada
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9780385694155
    File size: 361593 KB
    Release date: August 27, 2019
    Duration: 12:33:19

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9780385694155
    File size: 361642 KB
    Release date: August 27, 2019
    Duration: 12:40:19
    Number of parts: 14

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
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