Michael Crummey’s River Thieves in the light of rescue history

• Published in: Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies
• Main Author: Feldman-Kołodziejuk, Ewelina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Bialystok 2016
• Subjects: rescue history; affirmative history; Beothuks; Demasduit; First Nations; Atwood; Canada; Fontana; Indian; Macey; Newfoundland; Beothuk
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11320/5998; https://doi.org/10.15290/cr.2016.14.3.02

Born and raised in Newfoundland and Labrador, Michael Crummey uses his inside knowledge to describe the region’s peculiarities in vivid detail. All four of his novels are set in Newfoundland and weave a story of its inhabitants throughout different moments in the island’s history. Though Crummey’s p...