USA: Doubleday/Random House, 1999. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First US Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. The history of Newfoundland, in the context of a romantic, historical novel, and also the biography of a real person, Joey Smallwood. Spine head and heel slightly compressed, otherwise in Fine Condition. Clean and unmarked blue and gray binding, tight and solid, square with sharp corners. Intenals as new. Endpapers with map of Newfoundland. 562 pages. 1.6 x 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 1999, Doubleday/Random House, USA

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A mystery and a love story spanning five decades, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an epic portrait of passion and ambition, set against the beautiful, brutal landscape of Newfoundland. In this widely acclaimed novel, Johnston has created two of the most memorable characters in recent fiction: Joey Smallwood, who claws his way up from poverty to become New Foundland's first premier; and Sheilagh Fielding, who renounces her father's wealth to become a popular columnist and writer, a gifted satirist who casts a haunting shadow on Smallwood's life and career.The two meet as children at school and grow to realize that their lives are irreversibly intertwined, bound together by a secret they don't know they share. Smallwood, always on the make, torn between love of country and fear of failure, is as reluctant to trust the private truths of his heart as his rival and savior, Fielding--brilliant, hard-drinking, and unconventionally sexy. Their story ranges from small-town Newfoundland to New York City, from the harrowing ice floes of the seal hunt to the lavish drawing rooms of colonial governors, and combines erudition, comedy, and unflagging narrative brio in a manner reminiscent of John Irving and Charles Dickens. A tragicomic elegy for the "colony of unrequited dreams" that is Newfoundland, Wayne Johnston's masterful tribute to a people and a place establishes him as a novelist who is as profound as he is funny, with an impeccable sense of the intersection WHERE private lives and history collide.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Bookseller: The Parnassus BookShop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 024933
Title: The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Author: Johnston, Wayne
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First US Edition
ISBN 10: 0385495420
ISBN 13: 9780385495424
Publisher: Doubleday/Random House
Place of Publication: USA
Date Published: 1999
Size: 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
Keywords: SMALLWOOD, JOSEPH ROBERTS, 1900- NEWFOUNDLAND, HISTORY
X weight: 0 oz

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