| Duet Contributor(s): Helwig, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0889842477 ISBN-13: 9780889842472 Publisher: Porcupine's Quill OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2004 Annotation: "Duet", a vivid and comic account of a stubbornly unromantic romance, is the story of Carman, a retired Toronto policeman, who takes to wandering in the wake of his wife's death. On a whim, he rents a cottage north of Kingston from Norma, the cantankerous proprietor of a rural junk-shop. Sex and death haunt the undergrowth as Carman and Norma grumble and feud, and against the grain of their bad temper begin to create a precarious friendship. "Duet" is a beautiful novella, but one without prettiness; David Helwig demonstrates a subtle sense of humanity through his creation of two of the prickliest customers in Canadian fiction. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004463371 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.64" W x 8.8" (0.52 lbs) 118 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Carman, a retired Toronto policeman, takes to wandering in the wake of his wife's death. On a whim, he rents a cottage from Norma, the cantankerous proprietor of a rural junk-shop. Sex and death haunt the undergrowth as Carman and Norma grumble and feud, and against the grain of their bad temper begin to create a precarious friendship. |