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Through the Deadfall

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Through the Deadfall

by Barry Kennedy

Doubleday Canada | February 17, 1997 | Trade Paperback

When Jack Thorpe''s world begins to nosedive, he seeks comfort in the kindness of friends--friends whose appreciation of life barely manages to win out over their inability to deal with it.

Jack loves his friends, he loves his wife and he loves his liquor, but he just can''t seem to take anything--including himself--very seriously.

His resolve is buoyed, however, by the threat of a huge bridge-and-tunnel project that would link his precious Vancouver Island community, Salish Spit, to the mainland.  Suddenly, Jack is a dynamo, things matter to him again--like trying to save his marriage, his town and himself.

Jack Thorpe emerges from the deadfall intact and renewed, one of the most memorable, likeable rogues in Canadian literature.

In Through the Deadfall, Barry Kennedy introduces a literary talent full of subtlety, depth and humor.
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Through the Deadfall is the story of Jack Thorpe, a marine biologist who rejects corporate life in favour of running a hardware store on Vancouver Island. His life is peaceful until a mega-bridge proposal threatens the fabric of his existence. Many of the other townsfolk see the bridge as a chance to revitalize the sagging economy, but Thorpe objects to this interference with small town life. What happens when these opposing views collide is comic, tragic and mesmerizing.

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When Jack Thorpe''s world begins to nosedive, he seeks comfort in the kindness of friends--friends whose appreciation of life barely manages to win out over their inability to deal with it.

Jack loves his friends, he loves his wife and he loves his liquor, but he just can''t seem to take anything--including himself--very seriously.

His resolve is buoyed, however, by the threat of a huge bridge-and-tunnel project that would link his precious Vancouver Island community, Salish Spit, to the mainland.  Suddenly, Jack is a dynamo, things matter to him again--like trying to save his marriage, his town and himself.

Jack Thorpe emerges from the deadfall intact and renewed, one of the most memorable, likeable rogues in Canadian literature.

In Through the Deadfall, Barry Kennedy introduces a literary talent full of subtlety, depth and humor.

Trade Paperback

368 Pages, 0 x 0 x 0 IN

February 17, 1997

Doubleday Canada


0385256051
9780385256056

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