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(0)Alexi Zentner
Author
Language
English
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Description
The New Face of Fiction and author of "Touch" has given us a commercial novel with a strong Jane Smiley and John Irving appeal and a King Lear storyline. Set in a fictional bucolic island between Maine and Newfoundland (claimed by both Canada and the U.S.), ruled by the King family for three hundred years, the novel carries a Shakespearean plot of sibling rivalry, love lost and won, art history, and the ins and outs of lobster fishing.
2) Touch
Author
Publisher
Knopf Canada
Language
English
Description
NOMINEE 2011 – Scotiabank Giller Prize
Touch begins with Stephen, an Anglican priest, returning from Vancouver to the northern BC town of Sawgamet where he grew up, just in time for his mother’s death.
Sawgamet was founded by Stephen’s grandfather Jeannot, when he heard a voice in the woods calling his name and his dog, Flaireur, refused to take another step. Back then, as Stephen remembers it...
Touch begins with Stephen, an Anglican priest, returning from Vancouver to the northern BC town of Sawgamet where he grew up, just in time for his mother’s death.
Sawgamet was founded by Stephen’s grandfather Jeannot, when he heard a voice in the woods calling his name and his dog, Flaireur, refused to take another step. Back then, as Stephen remembers it...