| Your Secrets Sleep with Me Contributor(s): O'Donnell, Darren (Author) |
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ISBN: 1552451380 ISBN-13: 9781552451380 Publisher: Coach House Books OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2000 Annotation: The first novel by the acclaimed play wright is a frenetic, magic-realist look at a parallel-universe Toronto, where the CN Tower has fallen into Lake Ontario, creating a footbridge via which a flood of refugees stream into Canada from the U.S., fomenting political chaos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Urban |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 4.8" W x 7.94" (0.63 lbs) 220 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Geographic Orientation - Ontario - Locality - Toronto, Ontario |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Toronto's CN Tower has fallen into the lake. The city is crowded with refugees from the US. Michael and Ruth Racco's dad has, in a rash of road rage, perpetrated the Backhoe Massacre. And, in the middle of it all, little Jimmy Hardcastle has, in the fountain of a suburban mall, walked on water. As helicopters chop the air over Toronto and a paranoid America slides into fascism, kids from south of the border collide with kids from north of the border and, over lattes, ruminate on new possibilities. Your Secrets Sleep With Me is a frenetic, ruthlessly hilarious critique of power and politics. Brilliant, absurd, incisive and fun, this caffeinated novel will take you on a doomed search for the place where you end and everything else begins. But you will not be alone. Shhh. Don't worry. Your secrets sleep with us. |