The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Wayne Johnston
Feb 2022 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Mary Lewis and Colin Furlong
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Wayne Johnson’s epic portrait of passion and ambition, set against the beautiful, brutal landscape of Newfoundland. A mystery and a love story spanning five decades.
In this widely acclaimed novel—hailed as a modern classic—Johnston (award-winning author of Jenny’s Boy and Custodian of Paradise) 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 established 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.
In this widely acclaimed novel—hailed as a modern classic—Johnston (award-winning author of Jenny’s Boy and Custodian of Paradise) 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 established 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.
Wayne Johnson’s epic portrait of passion and ambition, set against the beautiful, brutal landscape of Newfoundland. A mystery and a love story spanning five decades.
In this widely acclaimed novel—hailed as a modern classic—Johnston (award-winning author of Jenny’s Boy and Custodian of Paradise)...
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WAYNE JOHNSTON was born and raised in the St. John's area of Newfoundland. His nationally bestselling novels include The Son of a Certain Woman, The Custodian of Paradise, The Navigator of New York and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, which was an international bestseller and has been adapted for the stage and optioned for film and television. Johnston is also the author of an award-winning and bestselling memoir, Baltimore's Mansion. He lives in Toronto.
WAYNE JOHNSTON was born and raised in the St. John's area of Newfoundland. His nationally bestselling novels include The Son of a Certain Woman, The Custodian of Paradise, The Navigator of New York and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, which was an international bestseller and has been adapted for...
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