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"Moore combines the propulsive storytelling of a beach-book thriller with the skilled use of language and penetrating insights of literary fiction. She pulls it off seamlessly, creating a vivid, compulsively readable tale."--Penthouse Shortlisted for the 2013 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Caught is a "propulsive, adrenalin-drenched" (Globe and Mail) novel from 2013 Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award winner Lisa Moore, which brilliantly captures a moment in the late 1970s before the almost folkloric glamour surrounding pot smuggling turned violent. Moore's protagonist, David Slaney, is a modern Billy the Kid, a swaggering folk-hero-in-the making who busts out of prison to embark on one last great heist and win back the woman he loves. As Slaney makes his fugitive journey across Canada--tailed closely by a detective hell-bent on making an arrest--Slaney reignites passions with his old flame; tracks down his former drug smuggling partner; and adopts numerous guises to outpace authorities: hitchhiker, houseguest, student, and lover. Thrumming with energy and suspense, Caught is a thrillingly charged escapade from one of Canada's most acclaimed writers. "Outstanding . . . Surprising and superb . . . A literary adventure story . . . Gripping, detailed, and wholly convincing . . . A supremely human book . . . combining the complexity of the best literary fiction with the page-turning compulsive readability of a thriller."--National Post "A new kind of legend for a new Newfoundland."--Reader's Digest "Exhilarating... a memorably oddball and alluring novel that's simultaneously breezy, taut, funny, and insightful." --The Vancouver Sun
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"Lisa Moore's work is passionate, gritty, lucid and beautiful" (Anne Enright)
"Fresh out of jail, Slaney sees the world with pin-bright clarity. As the plot tightens like a pair of pincers, Lisa Moore's prose is worth lingering over" (Janet Davey)
"Moore vividly captures Slaney's youthful hopes and fears... A mesmerising narrative" (David Connett Independent on Sunday)
"In the creation of David Slaney, Lisa Moore brings us an unforgettable character, embodying the exuberance and energy of misspent youth" (Patrick DeWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers)
"Precise, compressed, intimately rhythmic, mesmerizingly smart" (Globe and Mail)
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"Fresh out of jail, Slaney sees the world with pin-bright clarity. As the plot tightens like a pair of pincers, Lisa Moore's prose is worth lingering over" (Janet Davey)
"Moore vividly captures Slaney's youthful hopes and fears... A mesmerising narrative" (David Connett Independent on Sunday)
"In the creation of David Slaney, Lisa Moore brings us an unforgettable character, embodying the exuberance and energy of misspent youth" (Patrick DeWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers)
"Precise, compressed, intimately rhythmic, mesmerizingly smart" (Globe and Mail)
It's June 1978, and David Slaney can be sure of only one thing. He can't get caught. Not this time.
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- PublisherBlack Cat
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 0802122957
- ISBN 13 9780802122957
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
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