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- Narrated by: Mary Lewis
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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Publisher's Summary
From the award-winning author of River Thieves comes a sweeping novel of love crossed by the blindness of faith and fate.
In a remote Newfoundland outpost at the onset of the Second World War, the young Catholic Wish Furey meets the passionate, independent 16-year-old Protestant Sadie Parsons. They begin an intense affair that is cut short as prejudice and mistrust drive Wish away, into the British Army and the war. At home in Newfoundland, Sadie turns her back on her family and moves to St. John's to wait for Wish - until she receives word that he is dead.
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A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
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A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2005
What the critics say
2005, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Nominated
2006, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Nominated
“Heroically human. . . . Crummey offers a journey of stimulating moral inquiry, one of his fiction’s most admirable qualities.” (The Globe and Mail)
“Extraordinary. . . . [Crummey] explores human nature, charting the moral choices of his characters without passing judgment. . . . [His] gift is to write with compassion, imbuing relationships with complexity and depth. He doesn’t make anything simple - or simplistic. The Wreckage shows with profound insight that nothing’s fair in love and war.” (National Post)
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- Stephanie Robins
- 2024-01-15
Dark and powerful
I loved the beginning of this book but found the middle hard to listen to - very graphic wartime violence. Not as good as Crummey’s The Innocents or Sweetland. The narration was choppy at times, but kudos to the narrator for all the accents.
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- Madeline
- 2020-12-15
Five Star Plus
This work of literary fiction is a masterpiece in the complexity of its subject matter and the emotional depth of Mercedes and Wish, separated early on with little hope of reuniting. The multi-tiered plot keeps the reader in suspense right to the end, waiting and hoping that something will be salvaged from the 'wreckage' scattered throughout their lifetimes.
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- Lesley S.
- 2020-11-01
Brilliant
I have an affection for Newfoundland for many reasons. Everything about this book resonated within my heart. I just finished listening to this beautiful story. I learned things from a new perspective. The word that comes to mind is a hoolahoop. You are stretched to the outer limits and brought back again. I'm fulfilled and hopeful once again. Life truely is a "circle game"
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- Souricette Sarah
- 2020-10-27
really great
A reinvented cliché, but always good for the heart to hear once in a while.
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- Georgieanna Dube
- 2020-12-31
Great performance
The performance is exceptional but the story was brutal and the end was an odd combination of tragedy and success. Not for the faint of heart.
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- debbo
- 2023-06-04
Canadian winner
My only complaint is that I think there should be a slightly longer pause to make a definite change between time and place in the narration
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- Kindle Customer
- 2022-10-28
my opinion
very much enjoyed it. taking my mind to different places and the history of the times
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