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list price: $19.95
edition:Paperback
category: Fiction
published: Feb 2018
ISBN:9780889844193
publisher:
Porcupine's Quill
list price: $19.95
edition:Paperback
category: Fiction
published: Feb 2018
ISBN:9780889844193
publisher:
Porcupine's Quill
Description
Populated by media personalities, literary characters, three-legged deer-like creatures and an array of idiosyncratic Toronto neighbours, The House on Major Street is an internal and external picaresque tale that begins with a dramatic bicycle accident and explores, along the way, the blurred boundaries between the stories we read, the stories we tell and the stories we live.
Awards
- Long-listed, ForeWord Indies Book Award
Editorial Review
[On appearing as a character in The House on Major Street:]
'Leon flatters me and of course I'm delighted to be so used by a writer I respect so much. Steve Temple will feel the same I'm sure. Richard Landon, sadly gone now, would be equally flattered by Leon's very accurate picture of his rapacity-except he would sneer at Leon and goad him by saying the Fisher ''already has three copies of it''.
'I shall inquire of Leon, next time I see him, just what he means by ''dishevelled'' in reference to myself. He only sees me in places where drinking occurs, not in my professional guise where like all greedy dealers I'm always slick and charming. Looks like it's to be a must-read book.
— David Mason, proprietor, David Mason Books
