River Thieves Author:Michael Crummey "Vibrantly written and uniquely evocative" (Denver Post), River Thievesis the riveting story of a group of European settlers of the New World in the early nineteenth century. The Peytons, their enigmatic housekeeper, and the men who manage their fishing and trapping concerns on the shores of Newfoundland live lives of punishing physicality, inar... more »ticulate longing, and violence. Their misunderstandings and compromises have tragic consequences not only for their own community but also for the Beothuk, or Red Indians, a people on the verge of extinction. With penetrating insight, Michael Crummey captures both the vast sweep of history and the intimate lives of those caught in its wake.« less
Crummey's meticulously-wrought portrait of Newfoundland settlers in the early 1800s is weighted by an overwhelming sense of sadness and marred by a timeline that folds back on itself as intricately as the coastline on which it is set.