An evening with the award-winning, bestselling author of The Innocents, Michael Crummey, who returns to Winnipeg to discuss and sign The Adversary (Knopf Canada): a dark, enthralling novel about love and its limitations, the corruption of power and the power of corruption. Co-presented by The Winnipeg International Writers' Festival as part of THIN AIR 2023.
Featuring a reading and a conversation hosted by Chris Hall, co-owner of McNally Robinson Booksellers.
In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the shore when the Widow Caines arrives to throw the wedding and Abe's plans into chaos. That ruthless act of sabotage is the opening salvo in a battle between the man and woman who own Mockbeggar's largest mercantile firms, each fighting for the scarce resources of the north Atlantic fishery, each seeking a measure of revenge on the person they despise most in the world. Compulsively readable and uncompromising, The Adversary is a pitch-perfect evocation of a lost time, and a shadowed mirror to our modern politics of grievance and retribution.
16 окт 2023
