Adversary

Title: Adversary
Author: Michael Crummey
ISBN: 9780385685443
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2023
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 336
Publisher Description: <b>#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE 2025 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD - Shortlisted for the 2023 BMO Winterset Award - Longlisted for the 2024 Killick Capital Fiction Award, part of the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards - Named a Best Book of the Year by <i>The New Yorker </i>- <i>The Globe and Mail </i>- CBC - <i>Toronto Star </i>- <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> <p/>From the award-winning, bestselling author of <i>The Innocents</i>, a dark, enthralling novel about love and its limitations, the corruption of power and the power of corruption.<br></b><br><b>"A flawlessly crafted narrative" -- <i>Wall Street Journal</i></b><br><b>"Ceaselessly entertaining" -- <i>Kirkus</i> (starred review)</b><br><b>"A masterpiece" -- <i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review)</b><br><b>"One of our best writers" -- <i>Booklist</i> (starred review)</b> <p/>In the isolated outport of Mockberggar on Newfoundland's northern coast, company man Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant and so secure his dominance over the shore, until the Widow Caines, arrives to throw the wedding and Abe's plans into chaos. <p/>As the bitter feud between the man and woman who own Mockbeggar's largest mercantile firms--each determined to ruin the person they despise most--spirals further into vendetta and violence, the locals too are forced to take sides, with devastating consequences. <p/>A compulsive, exuberant and uncompromising historical adventure--for fans of HBO's <i>Deadwood </i>and Lauren Groff's <i>The Vaster Wild</i>--<i>The Adversary </i>is a wildly entertaining evocation of power, grievance and retribution, and Michael Crummey's finest novel to date.