Minus Time by Catherine Bush
What happens when your astronaut mother orbits the earth and your father rushes around the world on disaster relief missions? You can always join a terrorist animal rights group and chat with your mother via satellite. 20-year-old Helen, who watched a stand-in family take her and her brother?s place when they skipped their mother?s lift-off, is plagued by cynicism and doubt, yet she longs for direction. Her envisioning of, and growth into adult life is chronicled in Catherine Bush?s ultra-contemporary tale Minus Time.
?A mordant vision of the late 20th-century life in which families fall apart, the environment grows toxic and natural disasters abound - and yet redemption still remains a possibility? New York Times Book Review ?A startling debut.. Minus Time moves with the edgy precision of a dream, one whose undercurrent of impending apocalypse invests even the most mundane actions with an aura of mystery and trepidation? Los Angeles Reader ?Bush has chosen a strange and remarkable metaphor for the chaos of modern life. What could better represent the fragmentation of the nuclear family than a mother who's in outer space? What better symbol for the anomie and aimlessness of 20-year olds than minus time, the period that's nothing but the lead up to something else?? Voice Literary Supplement
Catherine Bush was born in Toronto in 1961. She's worked as an arts journalist and dance critic in Toronto and New York. Her work has appeared in a variety of US and Canadian publications and she lives in Toronto, round the corner from the UFO snack bar.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852424084 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852424087 |
| Title | Minus Time |
| Author | Catherine Bush |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1995-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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