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Titles > Fiction > Exotic Dancers



Exotic Dancers
by Gerald Lynch


Novel

240 pages
Trade Paper
5.5" X 8.5"
ISBN: 1896951325
$21.95

Hard Cover
ISBN:
189695152X
$31.95

Exotic Dancers
by Gerald Lynch

Shortlisted for the 2003 Ottawa Book Award.

She is Maggie Coyle: recently downsized bank employee and single mom of Johnathan. He is Joe Farlotte: out-of-work architect and jilted dad of Holly. When the two first meet, Joe is reluctant to abandon his "compulsive simplifying" to meet the risks of intimacy head-on, and Maggie is torn between the divergent pulls of feminism and her own desires and expectations.

But when Maggie rescues Holly from depression, and Joe becomes for Johnathan the dad he's never had, a dance as old as time is set in motion.

Told elliptically in a host of quirky voices, this is a candid exploration of life and love in the suburbs at the turn of the century.

About Gerald Lynch.
   



Reviews:
"... Lynch scores direct hits, coaxing wit, irony, and occassional hilarity out of human desperation... Exotic Dancers remains enormously readable, rich, and unsettling."
— Quill & Quire

"A cross between Alice Munro's microscopic attention to personal tensions and Roddy Doyle's vision of the energy and humour that is part of life on the wrong side of the trout stream.
— Books In Canada