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The Innocents : A Novel by Michael Crummey is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Innocents : A Novel about?
People Magazine Book of the Week'Extraordinary.'--Wall Street Journal'Gripping.'--Emma Donoghue, author of Room'Dazzling.'--Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek'Fantastic.'--Kevin Powers, author of Yellow Birds and A Shout in the Ruins'Brilliant.'--Ron Rash, author of SerenaFrom prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness.A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family's boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by their mother and father to keep them. Muddling though the severe round of the seasons, through years of meagre catches and storms and ravaging illness, it is their fierce loyalty to each other that motivates and sustains them. But as seasons pass and they wade deeper into the mystery of their own natures, even that loyalty will be test
Who reads The Innocents : A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Michael Crummey
- Publisher
- Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780385545433
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (1,687 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14