An epic portrait of passion and ambition set against the beautiful brutallandscape of Newfoundland <strong>The Colony of Unrequited Dreams</strong> describes th... » 

An epic portrait of passion and ambition set against the beautiful brutallandscape of Newfoundland The Colony of Unrequited Dreams describes the riseof Joey Smallwood who claws his way up from poverty to become Newfoundlandsfirst premier. Smallwoods fate is inextricably linked with that of his tarttongued childhood rival and soul mate Sheilagh Fielding who becomes abrilliant and popular satirist of Smallwoods career. Their unconventionalromance ranges from small Canadian fishing towns to New York City from theharrowing ice floes of the seal hunt to the lavish drawing rooms of colonialgovernors. And as the decades pass and Smallwoods successes and failuresshape Newfoundlands emerging political destiny these two characters mustconfront their frailties and secrets and their mutual if doomed love.Wayne Johnstons widely acclaimed tragicomic elegy for the colony ofunrequited dreams that is Newfoundland is a masterful tribute to a people anda place and establishes him as a novelist of profound and manifold gifts. «