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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
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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.
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"...
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.
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