Man of Bone
Autor Alan Cumynen Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 1998
Finalist, Trillium Award
Man of Bone has a thriller's taste for blood, but Alan Cumyn delivers something more: a heart-wrenching portrait of an ordinary Canadian jerked into third-world terrorism. Bill Burridge, his wife and their little son have moved to the "island paradise" of Santa Irene on Bill's first diplomatic posting. At the short-staffed embassy, he is thrown, almost unbriefed, into work he scarcely understands. After less than two weeks, while driving alone on a "safe" highway to an afternoon of badminton in the country, he is snatched by revolutionaries.
Against his will, Burridge turns out under torture to be a "man of bone" who can't give up and die. His ignorance and low status make him useless to his captors, but they can't simply let him go. They continue to torture him until, distracted by other battles, they abandon him and his keeper in a mountain village. Suddenly one day helicopters rake the village with gunfire, and the whole situation turns upside down.
Alan Cumyn is well known for creating men with tender hearts and iron wills. Bill Burridge, angry at God for making him live, keeps his wits by remembering his and Maryse's courtship and marriage and their life with young Patrick. Although he isolates this part of himself from his torturers, he and his beloved family discover when he returns to Ottawa, barely alive, that "living happily ever after" will be more complex than they could have imagined.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780864922298
ISBN-10: 0864922299
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Goose Lane Editions
Colecția Goose Lane Editions
Locul publicării:Canada
ISBN-10: 0864922299
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Goose Lane Editions
Colecția Goose Lane Editions
Locul publicării:Canada
Recenzii
Man of Bone has the power of a thriller, but Alan Cumyn delivers something more: a complex portrait of an ordinary man jerked into the horrors of terrorism. Bill Burridge, his wife, and their son move to the "island paradise" of Santa Irene on Bill's first posting as a Canadian diplomat. At the short-staffed embassy, he struggles with work he scarcely understands. Ten days later, driving alone on a supposedly safe highway, he is kidnapped by revolutionaries.
Burridge's ignorance and low status make him useless to his captors, but they can't simply let him go. His body broken by relentless torture, Burridge determines to keep his spirit whole by concentrating on his childhood and his life with his wife and his little boy. Eventually, distracted by other battles, the kidnappers abandon Burridge and his keeper in a mountain village. A sudden, violent rescue throws Burridge back into his own world, but he and his beloved family discover that "living happily ever after" will be more complex than they could have imagined.
"One of the best young writers in the country."
"Alan Cumyn's writing has shifted into a new gear — overdrive. Man of Bone moves at the pace of a thriller, with a thriller's taste for blood. Cumyn paints a heart-wrenching portrait of western man, Canadian subspecies — both compassionate and boneheaded — pried out of his complacency to face the brutal oppression and inhumanity that is the cankerous root of third-world political terrorism."
"Man of Bone is gripping, and its treatment of torture is fully believable. A captivating narrative of a nightmare situation."
"Undesistingly fast-paced, tough, unsentimental, and compelling, Man of Bone introduces the vividly realized island nation of Santa Irene and a kidnapped, tortured Canadian diplomat who finds himself further islanded in his life-or-death predicament."
Burridge's ignorance and low status make him useless to his captors, but they can't simply let him go. His body broken by relentless torture, Burridge determines to keep his spirit whole by concentrating on his childhood and his life with his wife and his little boy. Eventually, distracted by other battles, the kidnappers abandon Burridge and his keeper in a mountain village. A sudden, violent rescue throws Burridge back into his own world, but he and his beloved family discover that "living happily ever after" will be more complex than they could have imagined.
"One of the best young writers in the country."
"Alan Cumyn's writing has shifted into a new gear — overdrive. Man of Bone moves at the pace of a thriller, with a thriller's taste for blood. Cumyn paints a heart-wrenching portrait of western man, Canadian subspecies — both compassionate and boneheaded — pried out of his complacency to face the brutal oppression and inhumanity that is the cankerous root of third-world political terrorism."
"Man of Bone is gripping, and its treatment of torture is fully believable. A captivating narrative of a nightmare situation."
"Undesistingly fast-paced, tough, unsentimental, and compelling, Man of Bone introduces the vividly realized island nation of Santa Irene and a kidnapped, tortured Canadian diplomat who finds himself further islanded in his life-or-death predicament."