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Condition
Very good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
Publishing Language
English
ISBN
1862300631
EAN
9781862300637
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Type
Paperback
Release Title
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Artist
Johnston, Wayne
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Publication Year
2000
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Item Height
198 mm
Author
Wayne Johnston
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Topic
Books
Item Width
129 mm
Number of Pages
576 Pages

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'They should have called it Old Lost Land, not Newfoundland, but Old Lost Land.' So says Charlie Smallwood of the birthplace to which he had himself contributed thirteen children. 'Thirteen', he would say, 'A luckless number for a luckless brood.' But the eldest of the thirteen was Joseph, born on Christmas Eve 1900 and fated to lead the colony out of English rule and into the arms of its giant neighbour Canada. Grandson of a bootmaker, son of an impoverished drunk, wrongly expelled schoolboy, failed journalist, would-be socialist firebrand and trade-union pioneer, Joey Smallwood suffered chronically from bad luck and poor judgement. Yet his rise to power, seen through his own eyes and those of Sheilagh Fielding, satirical columnist and scourge of Newfoundland politicians of every hue, seems in retrospect to have been inevitable. THE COLONY OF UNREQUITED DREAMS uses the unlikely career of Newfoundland's first premier as its starting point to create a mystery, a love story and a tragi-comic elegy which is nothing less than the national history of an impossible country stranded on the brink of the world.

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Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN-13
9781862300637
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Book Title
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Author
Wayne Johnston
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2000
Number of Pages
576 Pages

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198 mm
Item Width
129 mm

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Wayne Johnston

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