Exotic dancers: A novel - Hardcover

Lynch, Gerald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1896951325 ISBN 13: 9781896951324

Publisher: Cormorant Books, 2001

She is Maggie Coyle: recently downsized bank employee and single mom of Jonathan. 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 Jonathan 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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About the Author:

Gerald Lynch is the author of Troutstream (Random House, 1995) and two collections of short stories (Kishey, 1992; One's Company, 1989), as well as several books of criticism. He has been the recipient of many awards for his writing, including the gold award for fiction in Canada's National Magazine Awards. Born in Ireland, Gerald Lynch moved to Canada as a young child and grew up in Sarnia, Ontario. With his wife and three children, he lives in Ottawa, where he teaches English at the University of Ottawa.

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