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River Thieves : A Novel
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River Thieves : A Novel Paperback - 2003

by Crummey, Michael

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Set at the turn of the 19th century along Newfoundland's rugged shore, "River Thieves" tells the sad story of the extinction of the Beothuk Indians. The tragedy of miscommunication among colonists living in a crude, violent age prefigures the larger loss, that of an entire people.

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  • Title River Thieves : A Novel
  • Author Crummey, Michael
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Date 2003-06-04
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 8093340-75
  • ISBN 9780618340712 / 0618340718
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.93 x 5.47 x 0.91 in (22.68 x 13.89 x 2.31 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Frontier and pioneer life
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002068830
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

"Vibrantly written and uniquely evocative" (Denver Post), River Thievesis the riveting story of a group of European settlers of the New World in the early nineteenth century. The Peytons, their enigmatic housekeeper, and the men who manage their fishing and trapping concerns on the shores of Newfoundland live lives of punishing physicality, inarticulate longing, and violence. Their misunderstandings and compromises have tragic consequences not only for their own community but also for the Beothuk, or Red Indians, a people on the verge of extinction. With penetrating insight, Michael Crummey captures both the vast sweep of history and the intimate lives of those caught in its wake.

First line

The infant woke her crying to be fed and she lay him naked against her breast in the shadowed river-bottom light of early morning.

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  • BookPage, 06/01/2003, Page 25

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