Saints of Big Harbour
by Lynn Coady
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Guy Boucher is a fatherless teenager oppressed by his small-town existence and dominated by his uncle, Isadore. Together with poverty and self-hatred, violence has been bred into Guy's very bones - and violence is one thing he can't shake off.Tags
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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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Lynn Coady was born in Cape Breton. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. She has edited an anthology of new writing from Canada's east coast called 'Victory Meat,' and a novel called 'Mean Boy' has been sold to Doubleday Canada. She writes for newspapers and magazines show more from time to time as well. Her title, Strange Heaven has won the Dartmouth Book Award in 1999, the Atlantic Bookseller's Choice Award in 1999, the Air Canada/Canadian Author's Association Award for Most Promising Writer Under Thirty in 1998, and was shortlisted for the Governer-General's Award for Fiction in 1998. Her title, Play the Monster Blind, won the Canadian Author's Association's Jubilee Award for a short fiction collection in 2001, was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour in 2000, was shortlisted again for the CNIB Award, and The Writer's Trust Award in 2001. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2002
- People/Characters
- Guy Boucher
- Important places
- Big Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada; Nova Scotia, Canada
- Epigraph
- O that I was where I would be
then should I be where I am not
here I am where I must be
where I would be I cannot
O, diddle-all-the-day,
O, the diddle-all-the-right-fol-day
—FOLK SONG - Dedication
- This book also is
for Charles. - First words
- All sorts of deals being made around here.
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- Genres
- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature, Suspense & Thriller
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PR9199.3 .C546 .S34 — Language and Literature English English Literature English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 6
- UPCs
- 2
- ASINs
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