Hard Light: 32 Little Stories Michael Crummey CDs & Tapes  ISBN: 0973422335 $19.99   Quantity     |

Read by the author, Ron Hynes and Deidre Gillard-Rowlings. Listening time: 78 minutes 32 Little Stories is a retelling and reinvention of tales told to Michael Crummey by his father and other family members about outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery of a half-century ago. It’s a love-letter to a world and a way of life that has vanished completely in the last fifty years. All of it is true. Even the lies.   Author's Comments: "32 Little Stories is my take on stories I’ve heard from family members and friends over the years and I’d like to thank them all for talking, in particular my mother, Uncle Clyde, Aunt Helen, and Annie Crummey. More than anyone else’s, though, it was my father’s voice and his stories that made me want to write these things down. Most of the best lines are his. And they’re offered here in his memory. Arthur Clayton Crummey, 1930 ­ 2002."                                                       -  Michael Crummey   Reviews of the original book, Hard Light, published by Brick Books: “…fully inhabits the earth, air, fire and water of Newfoundland….outstanding.”                                                         The Globe & Mail “…an exquisitely evocative world…the apparently ordinary shimmers with a matter of fact clarity guaranteed to curl your toes.”                                                         The Toronto Star The Readers, Ron Hynes and Deidre Gillard-Rowlings Ron Hynes Ron Hynes is well appreciated as an award winning singer/songwriter. Lesser known but equally competent are his skills as an actor. Ron’s acting career includes two stage roles as Nfld. Songwriter Johnny Burke in The Bard Of Prescott Street and Hank Williams in Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave. He appeared in the Nfld. Independent film release A Secret Nation for which his original song, The Final Breath won a Genie award for best song. Television viewers may know Ron from his character Johnny Shea in the CBC/Rinkrat TV series, Dooley Gardens. Now as a reader for audio books, his voice reading 32 Little Stories sounds like memory itself. Deidre Gillard-Rowlings Deidre grew up in Englee and Main Brook on the Great Northern Peninsula and has been working as an actor in Newfoundland for the past 12 years. She performed in Artistic Fraud's first staged production of Crummey’s Hard Light at the LSPU Hall in 2001 and this past fall in Salvage: The Story of a House also produced by Artistic Fraud. Deidre spends her summers with Theatre Newfoundland Labrador at the Gros Morne Theatre Festival in Cow Head. Her voice brands 32 Little Stories with an authenticity that catches the heart.

A little about Michael Crummey

Born in Buchans, Michael Crummey now makes his home in St. John’s. Both a poet and a novelist, in 1986 Michael won the Gregory J. Power Poetry Contest at Memorial University. He went on to win the inaugural Bronwen Wallace Award for Poetry in 1994. Kingston’s Quarry Press published his first book of poems in 1996. Arguments with Gravity went on to win the Writer's Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry. Hard Light, was published by Brick Books in 1998. Salvage was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2002.

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Other Books by Michael Crummey
	Hard Light $12.95, ISBN: 0919626955 , Trade Paperback, 5.5 W X 8.75 H, 112 pages, Publisher: Brick Books
	Salvage $16.99, ISBN: 0771024711 , Trade Paperback, 5 W X 8.5 H, 112 pages, Publisher: McClelland & Stewart