The distingushed novelist Michael Crummey discusses his new book The Innocents (Doubleday, 2019), already shortlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize, with Joseph Planta.

The Innocents by Michael Crummey (Doubleday, 2019). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: The Innocents

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

The distinguished novelist Michael Crummey joins me again. His latest novel The Innocents has just been published. The reviews have already been good, lauding the book for the sweeping and wrenching story of a brother and sister living alone in a cove on Newfoundland’s northern coastline. I talk to Mr. Crummey about siblings, about family, about his writing of the past. I ask him about Newfoundland and how he views the natural world. Michael Crummey’s books include River Thieves, The Wreckage, and Galore, which he was on this program with back in 2009. Those books, as well as his most recent Sweetland, have been finalists for major prizes like the Giller, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, and other prizes. He lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland but joined me from Toronto last month. The Innocents is published by Doubleday, and has since been longlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Please welcome back to the Planta: On the Line program, Michael Crummey; Mr. Crummey, good morning.

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