{"product_id":"9780385495431","title":"The Colony of Unrequited Dreams","description":"• National bestseller\u003cbr\u003e• Winner of The 1999 Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e• Shortlisted for the 1998 Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and Rogers Communication Writers Trust Fiction Prize\u003cbr\u003e• One of \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e's Top 100 Notable Books of 1998 and Critics' Pick: One of the Year's Top Ten Books \u003cbr\u003e• A \u003ci\u003eMaclean's\u003c\/i\u003e Choice for Best Fiction from Fall, 1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWayne Johnston combines brilliant storytelling with unforgettable description, and gives us two of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction: 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Colony of Unrequited Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic portrait of relentless ambition from a novelist at the height of his powers.  ","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012432838896,"sku":"9780385495431","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780385495431_p0.jpg?v=1763695075","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780385495431","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}