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Set in the hip urban core of Toronto and in the city s outlying areas, this is the story of an unlikely family held together by love and longing, pain and regret and what happens when the ties that bind them begin to unravel. There is Walker, a tender but rough-edged horse dealer trying to do the right thing; his fading lounge-singer girlfriend, Mimi; his sister, Joy, who cleans at the golf club nearby; and Joy s teenage daughter, Tanis, self-sufficient, nervy, wise, locked in conflict with her mother, and ready to break away from the tangle of this makeshift family and does, until a tragic event changes everything. Gritty, seductive, infused with wit and an undercover poignancy, this is an audacious and emotionally compelling novel by a writer who knows exactly where the heart lives and why it s sometimes so hard to find it."
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"Elise Levine uses language as a dare - tough, intense, almost defensive; ironically, it only heightens the effect of her compassion, which pierces the narrative with equal immediacy. From this edginess her vivid characters - who, in various states of ruin and repair, struggle towards a sense of family - emerge as authentic as bone."
-Anne Michaels "An accomplished first novel.... Requests and Dedications is a worthy successor to Levine's impressive premiere....Levine uses language deftly...."
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"One tough cookie of a writer.... Her canvas is the Canadian working-class family, her location the rural fringe of the Torontonian megacity, her theme, that pain outlives, while love can only endure.... Levine is clever and talented...."
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"Elise Levine's writing compresses the distance between art and audience.... She is a visceral imagist...."
-Ottawa Citizen "[Requests and Dedications tells] fascinating stories, includes sharply imagined moments and draws readers into the make-believe of fiction with alarming power."
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-Anne Michaels "An accomplished first novel.... Requests and Dedications is a worthy successor to Levine's impressive premiere....Levine uses language deftly...."
-Eye Weekly "[A] bold debut novel.... [Levine's characters] slowly reveal themselves, open up inwardly to the reader in a way that comes to feel important and beautiful.... The writing is dynamic and compelling. Pure power."
-Globe and Mail
"One tough cookie of a writer.... Her canvas is the Canadian working-class family, her location the rural fringe of the Torontonian megacity, her theme, that pain outlives, while love can only endure.... Levine is clever and talented...."
-Quill & Quire
"A cutting-edge literary sensation."
-NOW Magazine
"Reading Elise Levine is akin to a wild ride down a dark road at night.... Bold and startling.... Precipitous and exhilarating."
-Globe and Mail
"Elise Levine's writing compresses the distance between art and audience.... She is a visceral imagist...."
-Ottawa Citizen "[Requests and Dedications tells] fascinating stories, includes sharply imagined moments and draws readers into the make-believe of fiction with alarming power."
-Hal Niedzviecki, This Magazine
"Exciting and fresh...."
-Vue Weekly
"No reader can make his or her way through [her] stories and retain any kind of complacency."
-Calgary Herald
"One of Canada's finest fiction writers.... Levine demonstrates a kind of incandescent knowing about human affairs which she deploys in stunningly nuanced passages.... A sensitive, cagey dominatrix of literary form and human psychology."
-George Elliott Clarke, Mail Star (about Driving Men Mad)
Elise Levine is the highly acclaimed author of a collection of stories, Driving Men Mad, and the novel Requests and Dedications. Her fiction has appeared in The Journey Prize Anthology, Coming Attractions, and Concrete Forest. A Canadian from Toronto, Levine is currently living in Chicago, where her husband, a composer, is finishing a Ph.D.
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- PublisherEmblem Editions
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0771052782
- ISBN 13 9780771052781
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages328
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Set in the hip urban core of Toronto and in the citys outlying areas, this is the story of an unlikely family held together by love and longing, pain and regret and what happens when the ties that bind them begin to unravel. There is Walker, a tender but rough-edged horse dealer trying to do the right thing; his fading lounge-singer girlfriend, Mimi; his sister, Joy, who cleans at the golf club nearby; and Joys teenage daughter, Tanis, self-sufficient, nervy, wise, locked in conflict with her mother, and ready to break away from the tangle of this makeshift family and does, until a tragic event changes everything. Gritty, seductive, infused with wit and an undercover poignancy, this is an audacious and emotionally compelling novel by a writer who knows exactly where the heart lives and why its sometimes so hard to find it. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780771052781
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