The Truth Teller - Rilegato

Govier, Katherine

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ISBN 10: 0679310266 ISBN 13: 9780679310266

Casa editrice: Random House Canada, 2000

Riassunto

For forty-five years, Dugald Laird and Francesca Morrow have had the perfect marriage, united by romance and a common purpose. Together they have held up the beacon of art, truth, poetry, classical learning and Greek myth in a tiny school on the edge of upper-class Toronto, devoting their lives to rescuing and redeeming the outcast children of the well-to-do. But the effort -- and the cracks -- are finally starting to show.

The catalyst is a new girl at school, Cassie, an ungainly outcast with an eye for unpalatable truths. Swiftly recruited by Vida (tiny, intense, a natural leader), Cassie becomes the propulsive force behind the school's rebel girl gang. The other trouble zone is Dugald, who is increasingly haunted by memories of the wife and children he abandoned almost half a century ago for his beautiful wife.

But the inexorable Francesca manages to carry them all away on the school's annual pilgrimage to Greece. And, at Delphi, in the bee-kissed glades and among the ancient stones, the world as they've known it ceases to exist. As Cassie whirls in flames, both the perfect marriage and the template of the school shatter in a burst of truth-telling that releases them all to their fates.

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Recensione:

"Grand and comic — The Truth Teller possesses the intelligence and emotive power of a novel of ideas grounded in its characters' psychology and vivified by its language."
—Maclean's

"The Truth Teller is a pleasurable and stimulating read. Katherine Govier is at the top of her form — clever, subtle, observant.... The Truth Teller makes you reflect on the uneasy way that ideals and self-knowledge jostle in our personal and cultural psyches."
—The Globe and Mail

"A well-written and inventive piece of fiction by a novelist at the height of her creative powers."
—National Post

"A grand and comic, richly patterned novel. ... [The Truth Teller] possesses the intelligence and emotive power of a novel of ideas grounded in its characters’ psychology."
—Kerri Sakamoto, Time magazine

"Katherine Govier is the kind of writer who, when you hear she has a new book coming out, makes you snap to attention. ... Govier will have secrets to reveal, things no one’s thought to tell you yet."
—The Toronto Sun

"Intelligent, well-crafted and wryly entertaining... a comic and original collection worthy of the best of Ann Beattie, Alison Lurie and Bonnie Burnard."
—The London Free Press on The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

Katherine Govier is an acclaimed novelist, short-story writer and journalist, born and raised in Alberta and currently living in Toronto. She is the author of eight novels and three short story collections, and is the editor of two collections of travel essays. She is the winner of the Marian Engel Award (for a woman writer in mid-career) among other honours.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Editore: Random House Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0679310266
• ISBN 13: 9780679310266
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 416