Man
of
Bone
Winner of the Ottawa Book
Award * Shortlisted for the Trillium Award
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Man
of
Bone
is a psychologically taut,
harrowing novel
that
takes the reader hostage when Ottawan Bill Burridge is thrust into the
nightmare of third-world terrorism. Burridge has moved his family to
the South
Pacific "island paradise" of Santa Irene on his first diplomatic
posting. This is a country that has been dominated by a longtime
dictator and
is now threatened by an uprising of the revolutionary Kartouf. It is
also a country
where village boys routinely disappear and their bodies are found weeks
later--a where a young diplomat from Canada suddenly finds himself
shackled to
a prsion wall, in stifling heat and terror. Written in riveting prose,
often
edged with dark humour, Man of Bone takes us on a mesmerizing
journey to
the depths and peaks of the human spirit. |
"Cumyn's powerful third novel grips
us with techniques as old as Shakespeare, sharp as Waugh, contemporary
as
Egoyan.... Man
of Bone is technically
accomplished, a powerful, moving meditation on brutality, eroticism,
love,
pain, god, and humanity." Quill & Quire
"Cumyn...is
mesmerizing in this new
third novel, which magnificently enshrines spirit beyond the
limitations of the
physical body." The Globe and Mail
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Bone.
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"Man of Bone reads like an
unusual, haunting thriller. Despite its brutal descriptions of physical
torture
and its insight into a mind confronting death, this is a novel full of
life....
The novel's pacing, right down to its heart-wrenching conclusion, is
taut,
thrilling. Stripped to its human core, this is prose meant to survive."
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