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Livres anciens et modernes

Baillie, Martha

The Incident Report

Pedlar Press, 2009

30,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Détails

Année
2009
ISBN
1897141254
Lieu d'édition
Toronto
Auteur
Baillie, Martha
Éditeurs
Pedlar Press
Edition
1st Canadian Edition.
Thème
CANADA LIBRARIES IN FICTION LIBRARIANS TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY
Description
S
Jaquette
Non
Etat de conservation
Neuf
Reliure
Couverture souple
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

In a Toronto library, home to the mad and the marginalized, notes appear, written by someone who believes he is Rigoletto, the hunchbacked jester from Verdis opera. Convinced that the young librarian, Miriam, is his daughter, he promises to protect her from grief. Little does he know how much loss she has already experienced; or does he? The Incident Report, both mystery and love story, daringly explores the fragility of our individual identities. Strikingly original in its structure, comprised of 140 highly distilled, lyric reports, the novel depicts the tensions between private and public storytelling, the subtle dynamics of a socially exposed workplace. The Incident Report is a novel of gestures, one that invites the reader to be astonished by the circumstances its characters confront. Reports on bizarre public behaviour intertwine with reports on the private life of the novels narrator. Shifting constantly between harmony and dissonance, elegant in its restraint and excitingly contemporary, The Incident Report takes the pulse of our fragmented urban existence with detachment and wit, while a quiet tragedy unfolds.