Tom Brackett has created the perfect world for himself: he has a good job, a perpetually supportive wife, two kids, a mini-van, and even a golden retriever. But then, his mental instability causes him to commit a terrifying act of violence.
Tom's story, which is at once tragic and hopeful, shows how quickly familiar structures can crumble and raises the question of how we can possibly prepare ourselves for the loss of everything we hold dear. It dramatizes a man's struggle to maintain control over his own life under horrific circumstances. Though offering no solution, its message is a positive one: that the struggle is worth the effort.
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Höhe: 201 mm
Breite: 132 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
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978-1-55481-286-8 (9781554812868)
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Ian Colford's work has appeared in Canadian literary publications from coast to coast and he has degrees from St. Mary's University and Dalhousie. His books include Evidence (Porcupine's Quill, 2008), winner of the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award at the Atlantic Book Awards and shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the ReLit Award; The Crimes of Hector Tomás (Freehand Books, 2012), winner of the Trade Book of the Year at the 2013 Alberta Book Awards; Perfect World; and A Dark House. He has completed two writing residencies (1998, 2010) at the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers in Midlothian, Scotland. In 2008 he was in residence at Yaddo, an artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York. Ian lives with his wife Collette in Halifax.
