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"The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" is Newfoundland - that vast, haunting near-continent upon which the two lovers and adversaries of this novel pursue their ambitions. Joey Smallwood, sprung from almost Dickensian privation, is a scholarship boy at a private school, where his ready wit bests the formidably tart-tongued Sheilagh Fielding.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- rawmeticulous
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Wayne Johnston
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 562
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Limited, Doubleday, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783455036886
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Wayne Johnston was born and raised in Goulds, Newfoundland. After a brief stint in pre-Med, Wayne obtained a BA in English from Memorial University. He worked as a reporter for the St. John's Daily News before deciding to devote himself full-time to writing. En route to being published, Wayne earned an MA (Creative Writing) from the University of New Brunswick. Then he got off to a quick start. His first book, The Story of Bobby O'Malley, published when he was just 27 years old, won the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel award for the best first novel published in the English language in Canada in that year. Subsequent books consistently received critical praise and increasing public atten
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