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	Welcome to Wayne Johnston's website
		In his new novel, Wayne Johnston resumes a story he began in The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and gives us a riveting narrative with Sheilagh Fielding, one of the most memorable and beloved characters in all of Canadian fiction, at its centre.
		Wayne Johnston is a brilliant and accomplished writer and his Newfoundland boots and boats, rough politics and rough country, history and journalism is vivid and sharp.
		Unlike most recent bestselling novels that are remembered for the plane flight and then promptly forgotten, Wayne's stories have characters who move in and take up permanent residence.
	waynejohnston.ca (659 words)

	Wayne Johnston -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wayne Johnston (born in Goulds, Newfoundland and Labrador in 1958) is a (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian writer.
		Johnston graduated from (additional info and facts about Memorial University of Newfoundland) Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1978 with a degree in (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English.
		Johnston's breakthrough novel, 1998's The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, was acclaimed for its historical portrayal of legendary Newfoundland politician (additional info and facts about Joey Smallwood) Joey Smallwood.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wa/wayne_johnston.htm (230 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| The Custodian of Paradise by Wayne Johnston
		Wayne Johnston was born in Newfoundland in 1958 and grew up in Goulds, a small community a few miles south of St. John’s.
		Published in 2002, Johnston’s first novel to be set outside of Newfoundland is a send-up of television’s early days and follows Audrey Prendergast, whose love for her family blinds her to all else and who sees the new medium of television as the only means of climbing the social ladder.
		Johnston uses the stories of his own childhood and those of his father and grandfather to cast light on Newfoundland’s struggle over relinquishing independence in 1949.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676978155 (1349 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston
		Wayne Johnston’s breakthrough epic novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams was published in several countries and given high praise from the critics.
		Wayne Johnston has harnessed the scope, energy and inventiveness of the nineteenth century novel and encapsulated it in the haunting and eloquent voice of his hero.
		Johnston has created a powerful novel that portrays the romance, wonderment and deprivation of Arctic exploration, while at the same time capturing the taut, emotional intensity of a lonely, misunderstood young man at the core of the story….
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676975338 (1857 words)

	Quill & Quire » Wayne Johnston profile
		In Johnston’s work, the island of fog and rock is the one constant character, a looming physical and emotional landscape in which the human events take place.
		What’s unusual about the memoir is that many of the events it describes are speculative, recreations of moments at which the author couldn’t have been present, such as the way a person voted in a polling booth, or the manner in which the author’s grandfather died alone.
		Johnston suspects that another source of the domestic criticism was the knowledge that Colony would soon be appearing around the world for audiences who would be learning about Smallwood, Confederation, and Newfoundland history for the first time.
	www.quillandquire.com /authors/profile.cfm?article_id=1598 (1530 words)

	Book reviews of The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston.
		Wayne Johnston's breakthrough epic novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams was published in several countries and given high praise from the critics.
		Wayne Johnston has harnessed the scope, energy and inventiveness of the nineteenth century novel and encapsulated it in the haunting and eloquent voice of his hero.
		Johnston's ability to illuminate historical settings and situations continues to grow with each book, and this powerful effort is his best to date.
	www.bookbrowse.com /reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1133 (1203 words)

	Amazon.de: The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: English Books: Wayne Johnston (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And yet, as Wayne Johnston makes plain in his epic and affectionate fifth novel, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Smallwood's life was endearingly emblematic, an instance of an extraordinary man emerging at a propitious moment.
		The particular charm of Johnston's book, however, lies not merely in unveiling a career that so seamlessly coincided with the burgeoning self-consciousness of Newfoundland itself, but in exposing a simple truth--namely, that history is no more than the accretion of lived lives.
		Johnston weaves so many techniques that we admire in the masters of contemporary fiction--the juxtaposition of time and voice (Faulkner); the theme of conquest and ambition (Fitzgerald); the idea that human endeavor must equal the grandeur of place (Fitzgerald); the permanence of landscape (Fitzgerald).
	www.amazon.de /Colony-Unrequited-Dreams-Wayne-Johnston/dp/0385495420 (1582 words)

	Giant of Misery :: tyeebooks.ca
		What Johnston manages -- and it's no small feat -- is to combine the tension of a thriller with a complexity of characterization that rivals Mordecai Richler's or Carol Shields' as among Canada's best.
		Johnston keeps the action flowing with a varied and punchy sentence structure, where each long thought is punctuated with a short jab.
		Johnston's strength as a writer is his ability to keep you reading.
	thetyee.ca /Books/2006/10/18/WayneJohnston (973 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| THE COLONY OF UNREQUITED DREAMS by Wayne Johnston
		A tragicomic elegy for the "colony of unrequited dreams" that is Newfoundland, Wayne Johnston's masterful tribute to a people and a place establishes him as a novelist who is as profound as he is funny, with an impeccable sense of the intersection where private lives and history collide.
		Johnston has created the structure of the book by interspersing Joe Smallwood's first-person narrative with excerpts from Fielding's journal, her History of Newfoundland, and her "Field Day" newspaper columns.
		Johnston has given Joe Smallwood the role of protagonist and the main first-person narrative, but some reviewers have expressed the opinion that Sheilagh Fielding is a more compelling character.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/colony_of_unrequited_dreams.asp (1089 words)

	Lorenzo Reading Series : Wayne Johnston
		Wayne Johnston, who visited us last year, returns this year to launch his epic new novel, The Navigator of New York, and to inaugurate the Lorenzo Reading Series 2002-03.
		Johnston’s most recent historical novel – a weave of fact and fiction – will lure you out of your everyday circumstance and into bustling turn-of-the-century New York City, and beyond that, to polar seas and icefields.
		Johnston so involves us in the competition for that prize, we suffer the setbacks, join in the adulation, as the competitors, Dr. Frederick Cook and Lieutenant Robert Peary, struggle to be the first to the top of the world.
	www.unbsj.ca /lorenzo/readingseries_2002/wjohnston.html (368 words)

	Bold Type: Wayne Johnston
		Johnston's prose winds itself into a fantastically elaborate plot, full of anonymous letters and stunning coincidences, epic journeys and thwarted loves, fierce rivalries and shocking revelations, virtuoso set pieces and secrets of the greatest consequence to the characters' lives; it carries you unwaveringly along from the first page to the last.
		Wayne Johnston is a Canadian novelist, Toronto-based, Newfoundland-born, who has heretofore been unpublished and unknown in the United States.
		A grand, sweeping tragicomic love story spanning five decades of twentieth-century Newfoundland history, Johnston's is fiction on the grand 19th-century scale but recognizably modern as well, all of it animated by his erudition, control and gently sardonic humor.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0699/johnston (217 words)

	Amazon.ca: Baltimore's Mansion: a Memoir: Books: Wayne Johnston (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Johnston doesn't just come from Newfoundland, remotest of Canada's provinces; he comes from the Avalon Peninsula, the most isolated portion of Newfoundland (and confused in young Wayne's boyish imaginings with the mythical Avalon, where King Arthur sailed to be healed of mortal wounds).
		Johnston's muscular, plainspoken prose bears little resemblance to that of James Joyce, but his themes of exile and loss, loyalty and betrayal, and an ancient culture's ambivalent relationship with modernity resonate with the great writer's most urgent concerns.
		Johnston remains preoccupied with the fierce debates over the former British colony's 1948 confederation with Canada, a stinging defeat for his father and others who yearned for an independent Newfoundland nation.
	www.amazon.ca /Baltimores-Mansion-Memoir-Wayne-Johnston/dp/0676972977 (659 words)

	WAYNE JOHNSTON (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wayne Johnston was born and raised in Newfoundland and now lives in Toronto.
		Wayne’s last novel, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams was shortlisted for the 1998 Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Giller Prize, the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour and won the Thomas Raddall/Atlantic Fiction Prize.
		Wayne sold movie rights to Human Amusements and he wrote the film adaptation of The Divine Ryans, produced by the team responsible for Margaret’s Museum.
	www.yesnet.yk.ca /events/youngauthors/bios/wayne_bio.html (273 words)

	Policeman 'goosed' over gnome prank - 27 Dec 2005 - Feature: Strange but true
		Police prosecutor Sergeant Wayne Johnston, who launched an unofficial inquiry to find the people behind the gnome's activities, said it had been a rough four months since "Gnomie" appeared and then disappeared from his garden.
		Mr Johnston said a friend helped him with his inquiry and it turned out she had also been in on the joke the entire time.
		While Mr Johnston was down to four gnomes, a pink flamingo had recently appeared, although this time he was certain he knew how it got there.
	www.nzherald.co.nz /category/story.cfm?c_id=500835&objectid=10361551 (355 words)

	City of Fort Wayne - Home
		In preparation for the Grand Opening of the Public Safety Academy of Northeast Indiana on November 28, 2007 at 2PM, The Academyâs Director, Brent Johnson, is pleased to announce that the leases with the regional Academic partners have been completed.
		Fort Wayne Mayor Graham Richard and Allen County Commissioner Nelson Peters today announced proposed plans to merge Allen County and Fort Wayne land use management and development permitting services.
		Upon approval, the consolidation would bring together the best from the County and the best from the City to form a new performance-driven, service friendly department whose mission is to promote and support high-quality, sustainable development throughout the community.
	www.cityoffortwayne.org (548 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: Books: Wayne Johnston (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I found myself angry at the characters at times, which is only a testiment to Wayne Jonston's ability to involve the reader throughout the narrative.
		Wayne Johnston pulled me right into his wild, stark, exotic Newfoundland, where I found two unique characters with an ever tense and often wacky relationship.
		Johnston is definitely one of the best new comic writers coming out of Canada.
	www.amazon.ca /Colony-Unrequited-Dreams-Wayne-Johnston/dp/0676972152 (1200 words)

	Amazon.com: The Custodian of Paradise: Books: Wayne Johnston (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Johnston's descriptive prose can be exhilarating, from the windswept island to a dingy Manhattan, and he has a sure hand with historical nuggets.
		The heroine of Wayne Johnston's sensitive, beautifully written new novel is far too self-aware for her own good and, for that matter, far too tall for it.
		Smallwood (fictionalized by Johnston, but a very real historical figure) drifts in and out of the new novel, as do some other characters from the previous book, but Johnston's focus here is squarely on Fielding.
	www.amazon.com /Custodian-Paradise-Wayne-Johnston/dp/0676978150 (1178 words)

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		Wayne Johnston Auto is an autobody repair shop in Dugald Manitoba Canada.
		There is the state of the art shop, which was originally constructed in 1999 then doubled in 2001, which offers over 8,000 sq.ft. of service space.
		Wayne Johnston Auto Ltd., is also AutoPac Accredited.
	www.waynejohnstonauto.com /About.htm (152 words)

	Welcome to Wayne Johnston's website
		Baltimore's Mansion introduces us to the Johnstons of Ferryland, a Catholic colony founded by Lord Baltimore in the 1620s on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, and centres on three generations of fathers and sons.
		Filled with heart-stopping description and a cast of stubborn, acerbic, yet utterly irresistible family members, it is an evocation of a time and a place reminiscent of Wayne Johnston's best fiction.
		In his new novel, Wayne Johnston resumes a story he began in The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and gives us a riveting narrative with Sheilagh Fielding, one of the most memorable and beloved characters in all of Canadian fiction, at its centre.
	waynejohnston.ca /nonfiction.html (242 words)

	Amazon.de: Divine Ryans: English Books: Wayne Johnston (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Harried by his own frantic hormones, flustered by his many insufficiencies, and beset by a cadre of oppressive relatives, about the only defense he has is an endlessly inventive imagination.
		It's a fine line between coming-of-age sentimentality and gratuitous high jinks Wayne Johnston walks in his pleasing novel The Divine Ryans; the result--a snapshot of that twilight between childhood befuddlement and mature disillusionment--is unexpected and deft.
		Johnston's Twainesque aptitude transmutes drollness and hyperbole into something larger: out of his young hero's absurd comic tangles, we sense a subject slowly grasping not only the shortcomings of those who love him, but also their many travails.
	www.amazon.de /Divine-Ryans-Wayne-Johnston/dp/0771044364 (648 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Wayne Johnston
		Wayne Johnston was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, in 1958 and was raised in Goulds, on the Avalon Peninsula, from the age of one.
		Johnston’s works are recognizable for their wry humour, their interest in political and social history (especially of Newfoundland), and their focus on fathers and sons, who form the central relationships of his novels.
		Instead, Johnston contents himself with moving among his book’s characters as his tale of familial and generational conflict unfolds.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11729 (573 words)

	Amazon.com: The Navigator of New York: Books: Wayne Johnston (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Devlin Stead is the orphaned protagonist raised by his aunt and uncle in Newfoundland after his physician father dies in a polar expedition under the aegis of Robert Edwin Peary and Dr. Frederick Cook.
		Johnston (The Colony of Unrequited Dreams; Baltimore's Mansion, etc.) occasionally gets overly caught up in the details of Devlin's murky personal history yet delivers a satisfying character study, and the polar explorations generate considerable narrative tension when the family subplot flattens out.
		Johnston's ability to illuminate historical settings and situations continues to grow with each book, and this powerful effort is his best to date.
	www.amazon.com /Navigator-New-York-Wayne-Johnston/dp/1400031095 (1800 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In The Navigator of New York Wayne Johnston's descriptions of place--whether of the frozen Arctic wastes or the city of New York, bursting with the energy of a metropolis about to become the capital city of the globe--evoke an extraordinary physicality and conviction.
		A remarkable achievement that seamlessly weaves fact and fabrication, it continues the masterful reinvention of the historical novel Wayne Johnston began with his lavishly praised The Colony of Unrequited Dreams.
		Johnston is an accomplished storyteller, with a gift for both description and character.
	www.fictionwise.com /servlet/mw?t=book&bookid=7953&id=58370 (1380 words)

	Princeton News Leader, NC
		Since its inception in 1996, this bi-monthly exhibit has provided local students a venue to display their work publicly, while offering patients, parents, hospital staff, and visitors the opportunity to experience the healing power of art.
		Keep Johnston County Beautiful, Inc., a non-profit organization, is planning its fourth annual “Festival of Trees” to be held November 29 – December 9, 2007 at the Johnston Medical Mall in Smithfield.
		This year’s theme is “A Johnston County Christmas” where approximately 60 decorated NC grown Fraser firs will be on display for the public to enjoy at no charge.
	www.princetonleadernow.com (945 words)

	Mission Grove Realty - Wayne Johnston - Missiongrove.com
		A 23 year Idyllwild-Hemet resident, Wayne has been a full time realtor since 2001.
		Wayne's motto is: "I work hard for all of my clients to make sure that all of their real estate experiences go as smoothly as possible".
		In his spare time, Wayne is a a part time musician and a full time hockey fan".
	www.missiongrove.com /waynejohnston.htm (76 words)

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		Wayne Johnston Auto is a licensed autopac body shop that sells pre-owned vehicles and sells customer vehicles on consignment.
		Inventory is always changing, so you will have to check out the site often or contact Wayne either by email or by phone.
		Vehicles that are not available at the time, can be found at no inconvenience to us.
	www.waynejohnstonauto.com /default.htm (111 words)

	City of Fort Wayne - Home
		Fort Wayne Parks Homepage Botanical Conservatory Fort Wayne Children's Zoo Foster Golf Course Map of Parks McMillen Golf Course McMillen Ice Arena Register for Programs Rivergreenway Shoaff Golf Course
		Fort Wayne, IN- Fort Wayne has been recognized as the No. 1 Public Works Department in the country by Public Works Magazine.
		The City of Fort Wayne respects the privacy of its web site vistors and safeguards their personal information.
	www.ci.ft-wayne.in.us (548 words)

	Wayne Johnston (Mission Grove Realty) - Real Estate Agent - Idyllwild, California
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