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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.
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?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
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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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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by the Author .this copy is tight and square with a clean unmarked text.signed, dated and inscribed on the title page by Catherine Bush, previous owners name on the FFEP. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 0041809
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. Canadian First. Complete number line from 1 to 10; signed by Catherine Bush on the half-title page with no inscription; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectible condition. Book. Seller Inventory # 020806
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. US1ST.EDIITON.1ST.PRINTING.FINE HARDBACK IN FINE DUSTWRAPPER.SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE HALF TITLE PAGE. 88.Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 80BNNGNHBB/G
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Grey hard boards with black cloth spine covering, bright blue titles to the spine. In very good condition with light spine end bumping and the previous owner's name written neatly on the front free end paper. Stated First Edition. A clipped DJ in very good conditon with light scuffing and edgewear. "Bush's work confronts with surreal lyricism and deadpan wit the plight of the '90s twentysomething generation coming to grips with an era of dysfunctional nuclear families and the growing threat of environmental apocalypse." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 338 pages. Seller Inventory # 11419
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