Book review: Warring siblings push a town to the edge
It likely has something to do with my surname and birth order, but I've always felt sympathy for Cain, the dutiful older child whose sacrifice was rejected by Yahweh, that
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It likely has something to do with my surname and birth order, but I've always felt sympathy for Cain, the dutiful older child whose sacrifice was rejected by Yahweh, that
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The novel, which ranks among the St. John’s writer’s finest, is set in the same period as 2019′s The Innocents and features some of the same characters
On the acknowledgements page of his gobsmackingly accomplished book The Adversary, Michael Crummey (author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted The Innocents) touches on the “looting and pilfering” that went into the writing of his sixth novel. In particular, he singles out the 1811 edition of Francis Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue as an inestimable source.