Spadework

Findley, Timothy

ISBN 10: 0060194723 ISBN 13: 9780060194727

Published by Harpercollins Publishers, New York, 2002

Language: English

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Title: Spadework

Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers, New York

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition, First Printing.

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Lust. Infidelity. Betrayal. Murder.

On a summer evening in Stratford, Ontario, the errant thrust of a gardener's spade slices a telephone cable into instant silence. The resulting disconnection is devastating. With the failure of one call to reach the house, an ambitious young actor becomes the victim of sexual blackmail. The blocking of a second call leads tragically to murder. And when a Bell Canada repairman arrives to mend the broken line, his innocent yet irresistible male beauty has explosive consequences.

In Spadework, Timothy Findley, a master storyteller and playwright, has created an electric wordplay of infidelity and morality set on the stage of Stratford, Ontario, Findley's home territory. In this fictional portrait of Canada's preeminent theater town, intrigue, passion, and ambition are always waiting in the wings. Findley peoples the town with theater folk, artists, writers, and visitors (both welcome and unwelcome), and with lives that are immediately recognizable as "Findley-esque" -- the lonely, the dispossessed, and the sexually troubled.

A story that ripples with ever-widening repercussions, a sensual, witty, and completely absorbing novel, Spadework is another Timothy Findley winner.

Review:

(Findley’s) new novel is set against the backdrop of the Stratford Festival in Ontario, a milieu that he expertly cracks open. -- New York Times

A scandalously juicy novel... Entertaining backstage backstabbing exposes the staggering consequences of overweening ambition. -- Seattle Times

Spadework is Findley's darkest comedy yet. -- The Gazette (Montreal)

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