The Wreckage
Michael Crummey, Mary Lewis (Narrator)
With his bowl hair cut Crummey is the rare Newfoundland writer to return to Newfoundland. Having won a $300 prize for the poetry he wrote while at Memorial for a BA he got the idea that he could make a living writing poetry. After getting an MA at Queens he abandoned PHD studies to take up writing.
What the brutal prelude in Vietnam has to do with anything will become apparent later it would seem. Life on a fishing boat is equally perilous.
The characters offer flashbacks to Vietnam, the Korean War, the dropping of the bombs on Japan. Not a feel good read.
Crummey uses profanity and Newfie turns of phrase. We get a vignette of outport life.
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