Helpless by Barbara Gowdy
Rachel is a nine-year-old girl whose luminous beauty inspires every form of admiration. One summer night, when a summer blackout plunges the city into darkness and confusion, her most fervent admirer--a middle-aged appliance repairman named Ron--abducts her from her home. Set over the next two weeks, Helpless moves between the perspectives of Rachel, her mother, Celia, and Ron, whose feelings for Rachel grow less innocent by the day. Tapping into the fear that resides just below the surface of contemporary city life, Helpless is a brilliantly realized thriller about every parent's nightmare (Calgary Herald).
Gowdy, Barbara: - Barbara Gowdy's critically acclaimed six novels and widely anthologized short stories have been published in twenty-four countries and have appeared on best-seller lists throughout the world. She has been a finalist three times for the Governor General's Award and the Roger's Trust Fiction Prize, twice for the Scotia Bank Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and has been long-listed for the Booker Prize. She is a Trillium Book Award winner, a Member of the Order of Canada, and a Guggenheim Fellow. Ben Marcus, Harper's Magazine, named her as one of the few terrific literary realists who have pounded on the emotional possibilities of their mode, refusing to subscribe to worn-out techniques and story-telling methods.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780805082883 |
| ISBN 10 | 0805082883 |
| Titel | Helpless |
| Autor | Barbara Gowdy |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Metropolitan Books |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2007-03-20 |
| Seitenanzahl | 307 |
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