With My Father
- Publisher
- Exile Editions
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2011
- Category
- General, Coming of Age
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550961447
- Publish Date
- Oct 2011
- List Price
- $22.95
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Description
In this novel, M.T.Kelly – the master of a clear intense prose authentic to the feel of the streets and the urban city –tells the story of Robbie Blackstone, a sixteen-year-old boxer about to turn pro, and his relationships with his mother Lucy, her boyfriend Shiner, his trainers Stu and Jimmie, and Rocco, an ex-contender for the world championship. The setting is a noir city of diners, taverns, boxing clubs, dance halls inhabited by men whose grudges are a mask for broken dreams, and women whose broken dreams cannot mask a guileless yearning. It is in this world, at this moment, that Robbie asserts his independence in an entirely surprising way.
About the author
M.T. Kelly is a Canadian novelist, poet and journalist. He won the Governor General's Award for his novel, A Dream Like Mine (re-issued as Exile's Canadian Classics series in 2009).
