In experimental lit veteran Brian Dedora's third novel, prose fragments and narrative threads come in and out of focus as, on a winter's night, a reveller in an upscale Toronto restaurant begins the most dangerous of things: a journey into memory. Is he a narcissist or is he among the wounded? What is it to be gay in a small desert town and in the heart of a sprawling city? The Apple in the Orchard navigates the truths and half-truths of a traveller, a loner plunging through city streets and into the woods, a Canadian wrapped in the myths of the North and tangled in the snare-traps of the urban. As this layered, undulating novel explores class tensions, a family in disintegration, and how the effects of sexual abuse wind through generations, and while cameos by voyageurs, cowboys, Black Robe, and Grey Owl flicker to life and vanish again, the tragic story of the unnamed Her emerges in verbal snapshots.
By:
Brian Dedora Imprint: Guernica Editions,Canada Country of Publication: Canada Dimensions:
Height: 177mm,
Width: 139mm,
ISBN:9781771838603 ISBN 10: 1771838604 Series:1366 Books Pages: 200 Publication Date:11 June 2024 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
