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050 00 $aPR9199.3.J599$bC65 1999
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100 1 $aJohnston, Wayne.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86003110
245 14 $aThe colony of unrequited dreams /$cWayne Johnston.
250 $a1st ed. in the U.S.A.
260 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c1999.
300 $a562 pages :$bmaps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $a"The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" is Newfoundland - that vast, haunting near-continent upon which the two lovers and adversaries of this novel pursue their ambitions. Joey Smallwood, sprung from almost Dickensian privation, is a scholarship boy at a private school, where his ready wit bests the formidably tart-tongued Sheilagh Fielding.
520 8 $aTheir dual fates become forever linked by an anonymous letter to a local paper critical of the school - a letter whose mysterious authorship will weigh heavily on their lives. Driven by socialist dreams and political desire, Smallwood will walk a railroad line the breadth of Newfoundland in a journey of astonishing power and beauty, to unionize the workers - and make his name. Fielding, now a popular newspaper columnist, provides - in her journalism, her diaries, and her bleakly hilarious "Condensed History of Newfoundland" - a satirical and eloquent counternarrative to Smallwood's story.
520 8 $aAs the decades pass and Smallwood's rise converges with Newfoundland's emerging autonomy, these two vexed characters must confront their own frailties and secrets - and their mutual (if doomed) love.
600 10 $aSmallwood, Joseph R.,$d1900-1991$vFiction.
651 0 $aNewfoundland and Labrador$xHistory$vFiction.
655 7 $aBiographical fiction.$2gsafd
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR9199.3.J599$iC65 1999
852 00 $bbar$hPR9199.3.J599$iC65 1999