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    River Thieves: A Novel
    River Thieves: A Novel
    River Thieves: A Novel
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    River Thieves: A Novel

    By Michael Crummey

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    “An impressive first novel” of a crisis between natives and colonists in Newfoundland, based on historical events (Seattle Post-Intelligencer).

    In 1810, David Buchan, a naval officer, arrives in the Bay of Exploits with orders to establish contact with the Beothuk, or “Red Indians,” the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland, who are facing extinction. When Buchan approaches the area’s most influential white settlers, the Peytons, for advice and assistance, he enters a shadowy world of allegiances and old grudges that he can only dimly apprehend. His closest ally, John Peyton Jr., maintains an uneasy balance between duty to his father—a domineering patriarch with a reputation as a ruthless persecutor of the Beothuk—and his troubled conscience. Cassie, the fiercely self-reliant and secretive woman who keeps the family house, walks a precarious line of her own between the unspoken but obvious hopes of the younger Peyton, her loyalty to John Senior, and a steadfast refusal to compromise her independence. When Buchan’s peace expedition into “Indian country” goes awry, the rift between father and son deepens and begins to divide those closest to them.
     
    Years later, when a second expedition to the Beothuk’s winter camp mounted by the Peytons leads to the kidnapping of an Indian woman and the murder of her husband, Buchan returns to investigate. As the officer attempts to uncover what really happened at the Red Indian’s lake, the delicate web of obligation and debt that holds together the Peyton household—and the community of settlers on the northeastern shore—slowly unravels.
     
    The tragedy of miscommunication and loss among these colonists living in a harsh environment in a crude, violent age prefigures and in some sense is seen as the cause of the more profound loss, that of an entire people. An enthralling story of great passion and suspense, vividly set in the stark Newfoundland landscape and driven by an extraordinary cast of characters, River Thieves captures both the vast sweep of history and the intimate lives of those caught in its wake.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJun 4, 2003
    ISBN9780547349329
    River Thieves: A Novel
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    Michael Crummey

    Michael Crummey wurde 1965 in der Bergarbeiterstadt Buchans, Neufundland, geboren und zog mit seiner Familie Ende der 1970er Jahre nach Wabush, Labrador. Er ging zur Universität und begann zu allem Überfluss bereits im ersten Jahr, Gedichte zu schreiben. Kurz vor Abschluss seines Studiums gewann er den Gregory Power Poetry Award. Schon Crummeys Debütroman »River Thieves« (2001) war wie »Galore« (2009) und »Sweetland« (2014) ein kanadischer Bestseller, er gewann in der Folge etliche Literaturpreise. Crummey lebt mit seiner Frau und drei Kindern in St. John’s, Neufundland.

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    • 4/5
      A wonderful work of historical fiction. This book tell the story of recent immigrants to Newfoundland around the time of the end of the Beothuks Interesting, vivid, a great story.
    • 4/5
      Canadian poet and novelist Michael Crummey was born in Buchans, Newfoundland, a town that was presumably named for David Buchan, the English naval officer who is one of the main characters in his 2001 historical novel, "River Thieves."Early in the 19th century, Buchan tried to make peaceful contact with the small and illusive Beothuk tribe, also known as the "Red Indians," not in reference to their skin color but to their custom of covering their skin with reddish mud. Up to then, contact between white settlers and the Beothuk had been rare and, when it did happen, it usually ended in bloodshed. The Indians liked to steal things from the settlers, and the settlers responded with violence.The novel's main characters are John Peyton Senior, his grown son John Peyton Junior and Cassie, a woman who had been hired as a teenager to teach John Junior how to read and had stayed on as a housekeeper. As the boy reaches manhood, he falls in love with the older woman, but before he can make his feelings known he concludes she is his father's lover and so remains quiet.Buchan, meanwhile, has enlisted the aid of the Peytons in his attempts to contact the Beothuk, and he is a frequent visitor at their cabin. The younger Peyton leads an expedition to try to recover stolen goods from the Indians, but two members of the tribe are killed in the process and a young woman is kidnapped and taken back to the Peyton cabin.Mary, as she is called, gradually learns a little English and, in time, shows little interest in returning to her dying tribe. Buchan, however, is determined to take her back and to find justice for the Beothuk men killed by members of the Peyton party."River Thieves" is a fascinating story that sticks close to the historical facts. The novel was a bestseller in Canada, which is where I bought my copy several years ago, but it never found many readers in this country. That is too bad.
    • 4/5
      River Thieves' plot is based around the divisions and conflicts between the British white settlers and the native Beothuk aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland, or "red Indians" as the Settlers referred to them as. The Governor of Newfoundland enlists a morally conscientious young Naval officer to head up a winter expedition to demonstrate peace and fellowship with the Beothuk, and he in turn enlists the help of a number of reluctant local white settlers to act as guides up the frozen lake. The settlers, having historically experienced bloodshed and thievery with the Beothuk, share little of the officer's appetite for reconciliation, and as the years pass the officer becomes increasingly entwined in their lives as he takes on the mantle of justice for the native settlers.As with any good novel, the real magic lies in the sub-plots revolving around the main characters, and the development of these secrets into interconnecting threads. Crummey develops strong characters and evocative landscapes, and if you enjoy novels set in the days of the early North American settlers this will surely be a winner. There was a familiarity to this novel, and I think many other novelists have also successfully written this type of book, but it was enjoyable nonetheless (although perhaps slightly longer than it needed to be). I just wish he had left out the two or three pages of sex he weaved in, which definitely would be contenders for the Bad Sex in Literature Award. It seemed out of keeping with the rest of the novel and felt uncomfortably cringey - like reading an account of your parents' sex life (sorry to create any unwanted mental images there, folks).3.5 stars - excellently written and a fabulous plot, but for some reason I laboured over this a bit at times. I think this was more a reflection of my reading mood rather than the novel, so don't let my score put you off.
    • 4/5
      Set in Newfoundland, 1811-1820, this book is a fictionalized version of real events. John Peyton, Sr., John Peyton, Jr., and tutor Cassie Jure live together near the north shore where they make a living by fishing and trapping. Captain David Buchan is a British naval officer who attempts to encourage trade and end hostilities between the settlers and the Beothuk. The book features two expeditions to the Beothuk, each of which ends in violence. The Peytons bring back a Beothuk woman, whom they call Mary. Buchan investigates the second expedition to determine if a crime was committed. Cassie teaches Mary rudimentary English. Mary provides information to Buchan about the violence that preceded her abduction.

      Crummey has a knack for vividly describing the rugged wilderness. “The coves and stark headlands, the sprawling stands of spruce so deeply green they are almost black. The mountain alder, the tuckamore and deer moss. The lakes and ponds of the interior as delicately interconnected as the organs of an animal’s body, the rivers bleeding from their old wounds along the coast into the sea.”

      He brings back a time and place when a diverse group of settlers coexisted with the Beothuk, just before they were extinguished as a people. The relationships among the characters are well-crafted. John Sr. is portrayed as hostile to the Beothuk, while his son is compassionate. Buchan zealously enforces British law. Cassie is a survivor of a difficult upbringing.

      The book portrays the conflicts between the settlers and native people. I particularly appreciated the way Crummey combined the historical story with adversarial tensions among the protagonists. It is a story of misunderstandings, miscommunications, cultural differences, and loss of a way of life.
    • 5/5
      I learned a lot from reading this book. It was very informative and I would highly recommend it.
    • 5/5
      The Beothuk “Red” Indians were the aboriginal people of the island of Newfoundland. With the introduction of both French and English settlements, the Beothuk found themselves isolated and being squeezed out of their land, especially their access to fishing and hunting grounds. They were eventually reduced to a small refugee population living along the Exploits River and ultimately the Beothuk became extinct, with the last known known Indian dying in St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1829. It is this little known story of an aboriginal people which is the backbone of Michael Crummey’s novel, River Thieves. Inspired by the Beothuks and a well known English fisherman and hunter by the name of John Peyton (who was reputed to be brutal in his persecution of the Beothuk), Crummey has crafted a novel rich in the history of Newfoundland.Set in the early part of the nineteenth century, River Thieves opens with naval officer David Buchan arriving in the Bay of Exploits on orders to establish friendly contact with the “Red Indians.” But he cannot do so without the assistance of the locals – a rough, independent group of trappers and fisherman who live in small cabins along the coast and the Exploits River. John Peyton Sr. is living with his son, John Jr., and a young woman named Cassie Jure who he has employed as a house servant and tutor for his son. He is a surly man who has a strong reputation for not tolerating the ongoing thefts perpetrated by the aboriginal peoples…and it is he who David Buchan approaches for help. But there are many secrets in this small community – allegiances and alliances, old recriminations, buried crimes, and relationships which are not always as they seem.Crummey advances his novel through the eyes of the characters who include both Peytons, the shadowed Cassie, an Irishman with a questionable past and his native wife, and a captured Indian woman by the name of Mary. The harsh environs of Newfoundland feels like another character in this novel about love, loss, and regret.The theme of regret is strong … all the characters make decisions at some point which cause them to regret their actions. Even John Peyton Sr., who is perhaps the character who is hardest to like, finds himself regretting his behavior toward the Indians. It is this theme of regret which makes this novel a bit melancholy. And perhaps that is appropriate since it is a book which explores the historical atrocity of an extermination of a people.Crummey uses language and the naming of things as a way of defining the contrast between the native culture and that of the English colonists. And ultimately to symbolize the loss of an entire people. Perhaps the most poignant and poetic part of the book is in the prelude:Whashwitt, bear; Kosweet, caribou; Dogajavick, fox. Shabothoobet, trap. The vocabularies a kind of taxidermy, words that were once muscle and sinew preserved in these single wooden postures. Three hundred nouns, a handful of unconjugated verbs, to kiss, to run, to fall, to kill. At the edge of a story that circles and circles their own death, they stand dumbly pointing. Only the land is still there. – from River Thieves.I read Crummey’s amazing novel, Galore, in 2011 and it made my short list of best books read that year (read my review). Although I liked that novel a bit more than this one, River Thieves did not disappoint me. Crummey’s eye to detail, his terrific characters, and his ability to tell a story that captures place and history had me engrossed in this novel. Readers who love historical fiction will want to pick up a copy of this book.Highly recommended.River Thieves (2001) became a Canadian bestseller, winning the Thomas Head Raddall Award, the Winterset Award for Excellence in Newfoundland Writing, and the Atlantic Independent Booksellers’ Choice Award. It was also shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and was long-listed for the IMPAC Award.
    • 5/5
      It is astonishing River Thieves was Michael Crummey's debut novel. Right from the outset he demonstrates his facility as a storyteller and a master of writing.This is a compelling story which effortless draws you into the world of 19th century Newfoundland, and a British naval officer who is under orders to establish contact with the ever-diminishing Beothuk people. Add into that mix colonial ignorance and hatred, cultural misunderstanding and miscommunication, combined wild frontier justice, and you have a complex narrative which Crummey handles with a deft touch, elegant prose, and ambiguous, even ambivalent fatalism.Crummey creates unique and well-defined characters, each speaking from pages as real people. The plot is tight, the dialogue sharp. Even though this is not a piece of genre fiction which could loosely be described as thriller, it is, in fact, a page-turner of the best kind. There is nothing templated here. It's all just very elegant, excellent writing, and one hell of a good story.Highly recommended.

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    River Thieves - Michael Crummey

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