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In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly "Cat' Table" with an eccentric and unforgettable group of grownups and two other boys. Looking back from deep within adulthood, and gradually moving back and forth from the decks and holds of the ship to the years that follow, the narrator unfolds a spellbinding and layered tale about the magical, often forbidden discoveries of...
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Wayne Johnston returns with his funniest and sexiest novel yet, a coming-of-age tale set entirely in St. John's. Controversial in it issues, contemporary and then some in its depiction of humanity. Here comes Percy Joyce, born in St. John's in the late 1950s with a congenital facial disfigurement and local gigantism of the hands and feet. Percy is not baptized, and his mother stopped going to church after Percy's father ran off when she was pregnant....
3) Young Mungo
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Knopf Canada
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The brilliant novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain. ... Now Stuart returns with Young Mungo, his extraordinary second novel. Five years in the writing, it is both a page-turner and literary tour de force, a vivid portrayal of working-class life and a deeply moving and highly suspenseful story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they...
4) Western Lane
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Western Lane is the story of Gopi, the youngest of three sisters who live with their father on the outskirts of London. Their mother has died, their father's grief is palpable but unarticulated. Far away in Edinburgh their uncle and aunt worry and wait: unable to have children, the couple's wish to take a niece into their home and raise her as their own hangs over the girls like a curse in a fairy tale. In the meantime, the girls' father becomes obsessed...
5) Middlesex
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Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides’ witty, exuberant novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of a fantastic, absurd, lovable immigrant family — blessed and cursed with generous doses of tragedy and high comedy.
But there’s a provocative twist. Cal, the narrator — also Callie — is a hermaphrodite....
But there’s a provocative twist. Cal, the narrator — also Callie — is a hermaphrodite....
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"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous...
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“The sun came out after the war and our world went Technicolor. Everyone had the same idea. Let’s get married. Let’s have kids. Let’s be the ones who do it right.”
The Way the Crow Flies, the second novel by bestselling, award-winning author Ann-Marie MacDonald, is set on the Royal Canadian Air Force station of Centralia during the early sixties. It is a time of optimism—infused with
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