The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams

About this book

National bestseller Winner of The 1999 Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the 1998 Giller Prize the Governor Generals Award for Fiction and Rogers Communication Writers Trust Fiction Prize One of The Globe and Mails Top 100 Notable Books of 1998 and Critics Pick: One of the Years Top Ten Books A Macleans Choice for Best Fiction from Fall 1998 Wayne Johnston combines brilliant storytelling with unforgettable description and gives us two of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction: Joe Smallwood who claws his way from obscurity to become Newfoundlands first premier; and Sheilagh Fielding a popular newspaper columnist and gifted satirist who casts a haunting shadow over Smallwoods life and career. A mystery and a love story spanning five decades The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an epic portrait of relentless ambition from a novelist at the height of his powers.