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Catalogue Raisonne

Mike Barnes

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English
Biblioasis
05 October 2005
It is 1984. The latest recession is said to be over, and in the steel city of Hamilton, things are picking up. For Paul, however, an ex-rock guitarist and current art gallery attendant, life has slowed to the pace of a still life on a wall. He badly needs a jolt -- and he gets one. Soon after the arrival of an exhibition of Surrealist art, puzzles start to multiply around him. Before long, he is trying to find his way in a maze that includes a chess problem, violent death, Paul Klee, cocaine, bikers, a strip club and its art-patron owner, and a host of clashing egos and agendas in the gallery. And then there is Claudia, a young artist with a quick brush and a caustic tongue, who may know more than she is saying about the mysteries Paul is chasing. Catalogue Raisonn is a novel about the mystery of art and the art of mystery, and the power of both to awaken sleeping senses.
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Imprint:   Biblioasis
Country of Publication:   Canada
Dimensions:   Height: 222mm,  Width: 146mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   439g
ISBN:   9780973597196
ISBN 10:   0973597194
Pages:   240
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Mike Barnes: Mike Barnes is the author of Calm Jazz Sea, shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Aquarium, winner of the 1999 Danuta Gleed Award for best first book of stories by a Canadian, The Syllabus, a novel, and the short fiction collection Contrary Angel. His stories have appeared twice in Best Canadian Stories, three times in The Journey Prize Anthology, and won the Silver Medal for Fiction at the National Magazine Awards. He lives in Toronto.

Reviews for Catalogue Raisonne

Plot has become an endangered species in Canadian fiction, yet Catalogue Raisonne cradles its varied strengths of characterization, lively prose and a keen social and psychological eye within a steadily evolving plot. &#8212Darryl Whetter, The Antigonish Review


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