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Born in Buchans, Newfoundland, Crummey grew up there and in Wabush, Labrador, where he moved with his family in the late 1970s. He went to university with no idea what to do with his life and, to make matters worse, started writing poems in his first year. Just before graduating with a BA in English he won the Gregory Power Poetry Award. First prize was three hundred dollars (big bucks back in 1987) and it gave him the mistaken impression there was money to be made in poetry.

He published a slender collection of poems called Arguments with Gravity in 1996, followed two years later by Hard Light. 1998 also saw the publication of a collection of short stories, Flesh and Blood, and Crummey's nomination for the Journey Prize.

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Galore has been picked by Amazon editors as one of the best fiction books of the year, so far.

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Average rating: 3.72 · 1,722 ratings · 374 reviews · 10 distinct works
Galore
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 1,142 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions
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River Thieves
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions
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The Wreckage
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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Hard Light
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions
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Flesh & Blood: Stories
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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Salvage
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2002
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Arguments with Gravity
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1996
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010
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Flesh and Blood
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Breath by Tim Winton
Breath
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16 Categories of Desire
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giving this five stars makes me think I have to ease off when I rate other books. there are good books, there are great books. then there's something like Moby Dick, which is a world unto itself. I was forced to read it by my editor at other press wh...more
"Hey Jennifer,

Happy to hear you enjoyed the book. And God love ya for forcing it on others.

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MC
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“He wasn’t a religious man but a vision of what Paradise might be came to him, a windowed room afloat on an endless sea, walls packed floor to ceiling with all the books ever written or dreamed of. It was nearly enough to make giving up the world bearable.”
Michael Crummey, Galore

“From what I have seen of the world, Reverend, motherhood is a certainty, but fatherhood is a subject of debate.”
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“He was struck by the sensation she’d made it happen in some way, that his life was simply a story the old woman was making up in her head.”
Michael Crummey, Galore

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