The City Man Contributor(s): Akler, Howard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1552451585 ISBN-13: 9781552451588 Publisher: Coach House Books OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2001 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.02" W x 7.58" (0.21 lbs) 160 pages |
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Publisher Description: March 6, 1934. Hundreds gather outside City Hall to celebrate the Toronto Centenary. In the crowd, pickpocket Mona Kantor and her partner, Chesler, are 'in the tip, ' finding easy pickings among the jostling masses. Eli Morenz, city man for the Daily Star, is covering the festivities and uncovering the pickpocket racket working the scene. A surreptitious photo and some keen research lead him to an underworld dive in Kensington Market where Toronto's pickpockets converge - and to Mona. Moving from a tense newsroom on King Street to the frenetic grift at Union Station, The City Man is a romance that begins in an instant and careens towards peril. Akler's prose is as deft as a thief's fingers, as precise and powerful as a heavyweight's punch. Packed with enchanting, arcane period slang and comparable in its evocation of a lost Toronto to Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion, this is a novel of exceptional grace, excitement and beauty. |