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Saints of Big Harbour

by Lynn Coady

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One of the real pleasures of this book was the absence of the predictable plot turn; Coady sets up the chain of events so that the connection between Guy--a poor kid from a tumultuous home--and Corinne--a girl with everything in her favour--happens first. But it all changes from there. Coady's depiction of explosive violence uses tight poetic language, and yet her touch is light, moving from the teenager characters to middle-aged men, all of them believable and at least partially sympathetic. It was a refreshing and lovely book. (

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Big Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada

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"A true grit coming-of-age novel" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), Saints of Big Harbour is a funny, brutal, and vivid story about small-town life and the inescapable power of gossip. Lynn Coady gives us the unforgettable Guy Boucher, a fatherless teenager and recluse, who finds himself at the center of an ugly rumor. Several versions of truth emerge and collide through Guy's eyes and the stories of those who surround him -- his overbearing uncle, a girl idealized by her town, a quietly wise young woman wrestling with demons of her own, his draft-dodger English teacher, and a pair of golden boys trapped in emotional adolescence as well as Big Harbour itself.

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