Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ...; ...; . . . Hardcover, Fine Book in Fine DJ. Price Intact.1st Ed/1st Printing. Very collectible condition. Doubleday 1999. . . Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. .

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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: HousatonicBooks (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1561
Title: The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams
Author: Johnston, Wayne
Format/Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385495420
ISBN 13: 9780385495424
Publisher: Doubleday
Place of Publication: New York
This edition first published: 1999
Bookseller catalogs: Historic Fiction;

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