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Man of Bone is a psychologically taut, harrowing novel that takes the reader hostage when Ottawan Bill Burridge is thrust into the nightmare of third-world terrorism. Burridge has moved his family to the South Pacific “island paradise” of Santa Irene on his first diplomatic posting. This is a country that has been dominated by a longtime dictator and is now threatened by an uprising of the revolutionary Kartouf. It is also a country where village boys routinely disappear and their bodies are found weeks later – and where a young diplomat from Canada suddenly finds himself shackled to a prison wall, in stifling heat and terror. Written in riveting prose, often edged with dark humour, Man of Bone takes us on a mesmerizing journey to the depths and peaks of the human spirit.
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"Man of Bone is gripping, and its treatment of torture is fully believable. A captivating narrative of a nightmare situation." - Cynthia Keppley Mahmood - 20161001
"Undesistingly fast-paced, tough, unsentimental, and compelling, Man of Bone introduces the vividly realized island nation of Santa Irene and a kidnapped, tortured Canadian diplomat who finds himself further islanded in his life-or-death predicament." - Steven Heighton - 20161001
"A marvel of honesty, an unwavering gaze at the darkest of human failings." - Montreal Gazette - 20120504
"Reads like an unusual, haunting thriller. Despite its brutal descriptions of physical torture and its insight into a mind confronting death, this is a novel full of life, beautifully rendered." - Event - 20120504
"Alan Cumyn's writing has shifted into a new gear -- overdrive. Man of Bone moves at the pace of a thriller, with a thriller's taste for blood. Cumyn paints a heart-wrenching portrait of western man, Canadian subspecies -- both compassionate and boneheaded -- pried out of his complacency to face the brutal oppression and inhumanity that is the cankerous root of third-world political terrorism." - Tim Wynne-Jones - 20161001
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Three weeks into his first diplomatic posting in the "island paradise" of Santa Irene, Bill Burridge is jerked into terrorism by a disorganized gang of revolutionaries. Under torture, he yearns for death, but he can't conquer his will to live, clinging to sanity by recreating scenes from a peaceful past made luminous by present horror. His hypnotic voice, often edged with dark humour, takes readers on a mesmerizing journey to the depths and peaks of the human spirit.
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- PublisherEmblem Editions
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0771024843
- ISBN 13 9780771024849
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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