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GANG S ON
Betrayal is an ugly yet compulsive game.
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Wendy McGrath
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a novel
What is real when seen through the eyes of a child?
Spring NeWestAutumn 2011 Press2010
McGrath
In Strange Days, Ted Ferguson has assembled an amazing case of Canadian rogues, leaders, visionaries, tough $21.95 guys, trendsetters, and barrier-breakers. And isbn 978-1-897126-80-6 the best part is, their stories are all true. Ferguson sets fire to the myth that 9 781897 126806 w w w.newestpress.com Canadians are boring. His whirlwind tour of Canada in the Roaring Twenties will leave you breathless and shaking your head in amazement.
TE RRY FALLI S author of the cbc Canada Reads finalist, The Best Laid Plans
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“An utterly compelling story written with a cle women navigate betrayal by holding filaments friendships so tenuous you never know which
Arrhythmia
GANGSON_andy weaver
Arrhythmia is a vivid and elegantly written novel with characters so fully realized, so round and warm and fraught with their own hidden desires and wounds, so sincere in both their misapprehensions and their hard-won resolutions that the reader inhabits them, smells the rich aromas of their cooking, endures the pain of their longing for what is forbidden, rejoices in their moments of triumph and redemption. Arrhythmia holds the reader humble doctor performs medical miracles for a dollar apiece in a fast from its opening pages to its wise and satisfying end. tiny farm village outside Ottawa. A teenaged boy from Cincinnati julie k eit h author of The Devil Out There passes himself off to Toronto newspapers as a wilderness boy" making his first trip into civilization on a mission of revenge. A clause in an eccentric millionaire's will inadvertently triggers a national baby derby," and a war 718 971 26 721 hero becomes a religious cult leader and turns his British Columbia enclave Joelle is about to lose her husband Marc, who has become obsessed a Rosa, Wendy McGrath into a hotbed of sadomasochistic orgies. with Ketia, am young s Haitian woman. Keitia lies to her family to o eliaison childhood, recreating The 1920s were a time of frivolous fads, shocking crimes, and political pher conceal with Marc, knowing they would not approve. and social changes that yanked Canada out of the 19th century and into ce where our eyes are Joelle’s friend Diane does not realize that her boyfriend Nazim has the modern age. In Strange Days, Ted Ferguson revisits dozens of stories 1 2 world, her writing rich never told his Muslim family in Morocco about her. Then Nazim 7 6 2 1 7 that could only have happened in the '20s tales of serial killers, athletes, 9 8 gets a letter that threatens his secret. sely observed detail. con men, crackpots, bathing beauties, and more all of them nearly too anta Rosa is a novel of In her first novel since her highly successful debut collection of amazing to believe and too entertaining to be forgotten. short fiction, Ruins & Relics, Alice Zorn leads readers with sureness, sly humour, and grace into the lives of a diverse cast of characters n Ted Ferguson (no relation, cultural but I'm avalues big, big fanthe of demands his writing) struggling with conflicting and of has ws followed up his heartfelt and humourous Back Roads with a fascinating, intimacy. Set against the busy urban mosaic of Montreal in the e fragmented dynamics timely, terrifically entertaining new of work. Strange Days that literary winterand of 1999, Arrhythmia is a study betrayal: the largeis betrayals rarity a book that, once begun, you will not want to put t of view. Her prose we commit against our loved ones, and the smaller ones we down. commit IAN F E RG US ON against ourselves. ace and a sense of period author of Village of the Small Houses nd vividly present.
When does the harshness of reality transform idyllic memories? The young narrator of Santa Rosa seeks the answers to these questions as she tries to make sense of the disintegration of her parents’ marriage — a process echoed by the slow disintegration of their neighbourhood. In subtle poetic prose, Wendy McGrath evokes afternoons at the fair captured in overexposed photographs, and a family’s disquieting day at the beach as moments that exist apart from time, in a place where every sense is heightened, and where every memory is sharpened as if in a lucid dream where understanding lies just beyond reach.
alice