Border Songs - Brossura

Lynch, Jim

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0307357341 ISBN 13: 9780307357342

Casa editrice: Vintage Canada, 2010

Riassunto

Brandon Vanderkool’s severe dyslexia and six-foot-eight height give him an unusual perspective on his new job with the American Border Patrol, along the Washington/BC border — just a long, grassy ditch, really, barely dividing neighbours who used to be as congenial as those in any small community. Though his curious mind proves surprisingly adept at intercepting Canadian pot smugglers and potentially dangerous illegals, years of security hysteria and cross-border resentment — and a fascinating young Canadian who has turned her green thumb to a more lucrative crop — complicate Brandon’ s world in ways even he might not be able to see past.

Border Songs is that rare delight: a gently satirical portrait, an extraordinary love story and a celebration of the coincidental and the miraculous.
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Recensione:

“Border Songs is a masterwork, and Jim Lynch, for my money, is our best new storyteller since Larry McMurtry: deeply in touch with the natural world, the absurdities of our era, and the hearts and minds of his unforgettable and endlessly surprising characters.”
— Howard Frank Mosher, author of On Kingdom Mountain

"An imaginative tour de force. Lynch's comic borderland is not only palpable, it is richly metaphoric. Comparisons with Ken Kesey and Tom Robbins are not only inevitable, they are welcome."
— The Globe and Mail

"A wonderful and important read. It turns out that a novelist's eye is exactly what we need to begin understanding the subtleties of what's happening between our two countries in the post-9/11 era."
— Ottawa Citizen

"Entrancing. . . . Border Songs reads just like the news, except that it is far better written."
— Maclean's
From the Hardcover edition.

L'autore:

Jim Lynch worked as a journalist in Alaska, Washington, D.C., and across the Pacific Northwest, winning a number of national reporting honours. His critically acclaimed and award-winning first novel, The Highest Tide, was an international bestseller. He lives with his wife and their daughter in Olympia, Washington.
From the Hardcover edition.

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• Editore: Vintage Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0307357341
• ISBN 13: 9780307357342
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304