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Synopsis
Annabel Lyon’s debut book of fiction, Oxygen, “left the country’s literary elite breathless” (Elm Street magazine). Now, in The Best Thing for You, Lyon has taken her tough, unflinching style to new heights and all the anticipation is rewarded.
Here, in three novellas, Lyon reveals the potential for darkness that lurks behind even the most perfect-seeming veneer. In the first novella, “No Fun,” a middle-class family in present-day Vancouver is thrown into turmoil when their teenage son is charged in connection with the beating of a disabled man. In “The Goldberg Metronome,” a young couple discovers an antique metronome taped up and hidden under a sink in their new apartment. Its dark past weaves a story that crosses centuries and continents. Then, in the stunning title novella, a riveting and layered film-noirish piece set in wartime 1940s Vancouver, a housewife in her twenties plots and carries out her husband’s murder with sang-froid, with the help of her lover, a young grocery-store clerk. Later, the son of the insurance agent who loses his job over the woman’s claim must deal with his family’s financial downfall as he nurses his own obsession with her crime and its connection to the music in his head.
Lyon draws us in with her vivid characters and sharp, highly charged prose and holds us in the worlds she creates. Along the way, she challenges the fragile illusion of goodness in our lives. Once again Annabel Lyon has demonstrated herself to be one of Canada’s boldest, most exciting new voices.
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About the Author
Annabel Lyon’s first book of fiction, Oxygen (2000), a collection of short stories, was published to wide acclaim. Her short fiction has appeared in Toronto Life, The Journey Prize Anthology, and Write Turns: New Directions in Canadian Fiction. She is also a frequent contributor to the Vancouver Sun and the Globe and Mail. In addition to creative writing, Annabel Lyon has studied music, philosophy, and law. She lives in Vancouver, where she writes full time.
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Original Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st printing of the first Canadian edition of the Canadian author's second book, a collection of three novellas. This copy is SIGNED by Lyon on the title page, placed at Harbourfront and DATED in the YEAR of PUBLICATION, 14 April 2004. LAID IN: a TICKET STUB for the author's appearance ON THAT DATE at the Harbourfront Reading Series in Toronto. A trade paper original in french flaps. A finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. This copy is unread with sharp corners. Lyon is also the author of the novel The Golden Mean, the only book published in 2009 to be named a finalist for the Giller Prize, the GG and the Rogers Writer's Trust Fiction Prize. Also available from this bookseller are autographed Canadian firsts of the author's other three fiction titles: Oxygen, The Golden Mean and The Sweet Girl. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000534