Full Fadom Five

Here is a mystery worthy of Shakespeare himself. A tale of family and of desire in all its forms ... a beautiful story of love that any lover of the bard will appreciate. -Alexander MacLeod, author of Light Lifting, Giller Prize Finalist With its astonishing range and intrigue of plot, its diversity and uniqueness of characters (in all their delight and discomfort), and with the wit and wonder of its sentences, including tours de force of Elizabethan English and the prose of the King James Bible, Full Fadom Five creates the simultaneously lived and made quality we require of literature. -Geoffrey Cook, author of Afterwords Full Fadom Five is a smart and red-blooded exploration of literary and personal inheritances, a bibliophilic, idiomatic and bawdy novel that not only moves seamlessly between settings, but also acrobatically between poetic and prosaic, intimate and oratorial, dramatic and colloquial language. Weaving his intrigue around a Renaissance legal document of indenture, Bourgeois knows, as Shakespeare did, how powerfully a language of debt and accountability can express human bonds and what we owe to one another. -Medrie Purdham, author of Little Housewolf Bourgeois deftly handles shifts in time and place, straddling the turn of the millennium all the way back to the English Renaissance, spanning the shores of Cape Breton to the bustling streets of Toronto. He creates a compelling cast of characters and brings each of his settings to visceral life. Capturing the rhythms of his characters' speech, the dialogue sings; it's no wonder that this author is a playwright and poet. -Montreal Review of Books David C.C. Bourgeois's stunning debut novel Full Fadom Five is a seamless blend of multiple genres, a daring feat ... What follows is a deeply personal story of loss and forgiveness along parallel timelines, something the author navigates the reader through effortlessly. -The Miramichi Reader