Donovan's Station
- Publisher
- Breakwater Books Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2002
- Subjects
- General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781897174593
- Publish Date
- Jun 2002
- List Price
- $17.99
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Description
Set in rural and urban Newfoundland, this novel is alive with its landscape and language. In Keziah Donovan, award-winning writer Robin McGrath has created an unforgettable story-teller with a voice so authentic and distinctive that it compels the reader to sit and listen, and rings in the ear long after the book is put down.
About the author
Robin McGrath is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Trouble and Desire (1995), Escaped Domestics (1998), Hoist Your Sails and Run (1999), Donovan's Station (2002),Covenant of Salt (2005), and Livyers World(2007). She has published over two hundred pieces in magazines such as Beaver, Inuit Art Quarterly, Parchment, TickleAce, Fiddlehead and Room of One's Own.
She is an occasional contributer to CBC Radio, has written and narrated three video scripts, had her first play staged in 2002, and is currently the non-fiction columnist for the St. John's newspaper The Telegram.
Robin was born in Newfoundland and lives in Labrador with her husband, provincial court judge, John Joy. She is a member of The Writers Union of Canada and the Letterset Association of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Awards
- Short-listed, Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award
Editorial Reviews
Writers of quality often come from the fringes, and places on the fringes can became centres of literary excellence. The Ireland of Yeats, Synge, and Joyce is one example, as is the American South of Faulkner and Eudora Welty. After reading Robin McGrath’s Donovan’s Station, I am beginning to wonder if Newfoundland is headed for similar glory.