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Lynn Coady Mean Boy
Doubleday Canada 2006 038565975X / 9780385659758 Hardcover New
"Brand New with dust jacket, clean, tight, unmarked, (Fine with Fine Dust Jacket) Doubleday, Canada, 2006, First Edition, First Printing, Mean Boy succeeds as a wonderful portrait of a university town and university life, from the high jinks of students intent on accumulating experience to the pontifical evasions and suggestions of well-meaning professors….() Earnest, small-town Lawrence Campbell is fascinated by his poetry professor, the charismatic and uncompromising Jim Arsenault. Larry is determined to escape a life of thrifty drudgery and intellectual poverty working for his parents’ motel and mini-golf business on Prince Edward Island. Jim appears to the young poet as a beacon of authenticity – mercurial, endlessly creative, fearless in his confrontations with the forces of conformity. And he drinks a lot. Jim’s magnetic personality soon draws Larry’s entire poetry composition class into his orbit. Among the other literary acolytes are Sherrie Mitten, with her ringletted blon ID: mon0000115593"
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28.42 USD
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Lynn Coady Play the Monster Blind
Vintage 2001 0385259581 / 9780385259583 Paperback Like New
"clean, tight, has a remainder mark,() Family and place are the hinges on which the stories of Lynn Coady's deservedly lauded Play the Monster Blind swing. And they do swing. The book is a sure-footed dance to the often painful music of the working class of the Canadian East Coast, a tough but graceful negotiation of the living rooms, bars, workplaces, and childhood haunts where violence and tenderness, hilarity and despair, belonging and alienation coincide. The book's central image--a monstrous, confused loneliness--appears in the title story, which sees a young woman thrown into a manic-depressive driving tour of the Cabot Trail with her fiancé's chaotic, hard-drinking family. As Bethany sees her future father-in-law approach, weaving, arms outstretched, drunkenly repeating interminable stories of his youth, she can think only of Frankenstein's ID: mon0000123744"
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8.46 USD
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Lynn Coady Play the Monster Blind
Vintage 2001 0385259581 / 9780385259583 Paperback Like New
"Paperback, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases some light cover edge wear, slight back cover creases.() Family and place are the hinges on which the stories of Lynn Coady's deservedly lauded Play the Monster Blind swing. And they do swing. The book is a sure-footed dance to the often painful music of the working class of the Canadian East Coast, a tough but graceful negotiation of the living rooms, bars, workplaces, and childhood haunts where violence and tenderness, hilarity and despair, belonging and alienation coincide. The book's central image--a monstrous, confused loneliness--appears in the title story, which sees a young woman thrown into a manic-depressive driving tour of the Cabot Trail with her fiancé's chaotic, hard-drinking family. As Bethany sees her future father-in-law approach, weaving, arms outstretched, drunkenly repeating interminable stories of his youth, she can think only of Frankenstein's ID: mon0000028241"
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6.84 USD
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Lynn Coady Saints of Big Harbour
Doubleday Canada 2002 0385258682 / 9780385258685 Hardcover Like New
"First Edition, Doubleday Canada, 2002, clean, tight, with Very Good Dust Jacket, tiny tear at lower spine edge of front panel() Saints of Big Harbour, Lynn Coady's second novel, begins with some of the funniest work ever produced by a Canadian novelist. The opening chapter is narrated by Guy Boucher, the novel's hapless teenage protagonist, and it reads as though someone has cleverly translated Adrian Mole into a tiny Nova Scotian town. Guy introduces his family: his impoverished mother, Marianne: his uncontrollable, alcoholic, and incredibly charismatic uncle, Isadore: and his meek, almost unnoticeable sister, Louise. We also meet Alison Mason, Isadore's (male) drinking companion and Guy's sometime English teacher. Despite the bleakness of his surroundings, Guy is a cheerful lad with only one goal in mind: to use Isadore's truck to attend dances in the nearby town of Big Harbour and thereby find a town girlfriend. And Guy does just this, briefly, spending one night dancing with t ID: mon0000129802"
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11.41 USD
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Lynn Coady Saints of Big Harbour
Doubleday Canada 2002 0385258682 / 9780385258685 Hardcover Like New
"First Edition, signed by the author on the title page, clean, tight, unmarked, front free endpaper inscription, ID: mon0000149775"
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7.82 USD
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Lynn Coady Strange Heaven
"Doubleday Canada, Limited" 2002 0385659148 / 9780385659147 Paperback New
"New clean, tight, unmarked, First Edition, First Printing, (Fine), no spine or cover creases, If Hell is other people, 18-year-old Bridget Murphy has certainly been there. The hero of Lynn Coady's celebrated first novel, Strange Heaven, would like nothing more than to disengage from the world. But nobody--especially the folks back home in Cape Breton--will leave her alone. ID: mon0000157997"
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11.76 USD
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