num_pages: 562
description: National bestsellerWinner of The 1999 Canadian Authors Association Award for FictionShortlisted for the 1998 Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and Rogers Communication Writers Trust Fiction PrizeOne of The Globe and Mail's Top 100 Notable Books of 1998          and Critics' One of the Year's Top Ten BooksA Maclean's Choice for Best Fiction from Fall, 1998Wayne Johnston combines brilliant storytelling with unforgettable description, and gives us two of the most memorable characters in Canadian Joe Smallwood, who claws his way from obscurity to become Newfoundland's first premier; and Sheilagh Fielding, a popular newspaper columnist and gifted satirist who casts a haunting shadow over Smallwood's life and career. A mystery and a love story spanning five decades, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an epic portrait of relentless ambition from a novelist at the height of his powers.
language: English
title: The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams
titlecomplete: The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams
characters: Joey Smallwood, Sheilagh Fielding
genres: Book Club, Literary Fiction, Canadian Literature, Fiction, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Historical Fiction, Historical, Canada
ratings_count: 7327
places: Newfoundland and Labrador, New York City, New York, Canada
series: Newfoundland Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: CBC Canada Reads, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Canadian Authors Association Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
publisher: Knopf Canada