| The Weekend Healer Contributor(s): MacDonald, Bryden (Author) |
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ISBN: 0889223602 ISBN-13: 9780889223608 Publisher: Talonbooks OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1995 Annotation: On a Friday morning in a frighteningly well-groomed living room in Scarborough, Lindalou, 31, is packing up to return to Cape Breton after visiting her mother for the first time in five years. When Lindalou's 16-year-old son, Curtis, steps out for a pack of cigarettes and does not return, Lindalou fears the worst, and Curtis' disappearance is the catalyst for a harrowing weekend. The writing of The Weekend Healer, Bryden MacDonald says, began with a desire to explore the ideas of babies raising babies, the definitions of family, the beauty in what is perceived as obscenity, the pagan soul, and the nature of lies. But ultimately The Weekend Healer is about the birth of reluctant heroes in a confused and congested world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Canadian - Drama | Lgbt |
| Dewey: 812 |
| LCCN: 96106341 |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.43" W x 8.42" (0.33 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On a Friday morning in a "frighteningly well-groomed living room" in Scarborough, Lindalou, 31, is packing up to return to Cape Breton after visiting her mother, Betina, for the first time in five years. Mother and daughter have a turbulent relationship, exchanging refrains of put-downs as a way of avoiding speaking and listening to each other. Lindalou's 16-year-old son, Curtis, is as much a brother to her: "We grew up together," she says. When Curtis steps out for a pack of cigarettes and does not return, the young mother fears the worst. Curtis' disappearance is the catalyst for a harrowing weekend of hysteria and emotional upheaval. Lindalou's blistering, smart-mouthed anger wears down to a paralytic terror, while Betina's blinkered sense of reality, like the plastic cover on her sofa, is ripped away. The Weekend Healer asks us to question the nature of family, of that much-proffered placebo--traditional family values, and of what mothering and fathering are all about. |