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Chargement... The Carpenterpar Matt Lennox
Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  JooniperD | Apr 5, 2013 | 
 An engaging debut novel from military man Matt Lennox, The Carpenter brilliantly details small-town life and the lure of revenge and retribution, all with a twist of dark humour.  For a story about people who have great trouble expressing themselves, The Carpenter is remarkably eloquent. Set in small-town Ontario, this literary fiction is bookended by the tragic conclusion in 1980 of the real-life Marathon of Hope of cancer patient Terry Fox, a laconic guy in his own right, and his death the following year....Every member of the large cast lives vividly on the page. Lennox sets them free to do their best or their worst, aspiring to soar beyond the looming destinies dictated by the high school they attend, what their fathers do for living and whether either has been to jail. These struggles invite the reader to care about them all, the good, the bad and the otherwise, even when they fail to comprehend their own motivations. Lennox's characters have lots of good stories but they cannot find the words to tell them, Lee in particular. If CanLit has a predominant colour, that colour is grey. The grey of storm clouds and winter; of factory smoke stacks and car exhaust; of woodsmoke and cigarette ash. The grey of memory made manifest in old black-and-white photographs. And, not least important for Matt Lennox’s debut novel, the grey of moral relativism.....Still, if certain aspects of the plot seem forced or underdeveloped (a subplot involving the ex-cop, Stan, and his discovery of a woman’s dead body in a car peters out without any satisfying resolution), there is no denying the mythic overtones that infuse Lennox’s novel. The book is nominally set in 1980, although the only identifiable markers of this are passing references to Terry Fox (whose ill-fated cross-country run serves as a kind of leitmotif) and The Empire Strikes Back; for all practical intents and purposes, the story is timeless. That Lee ends up as a scapegoat for the town’s sins is fitting, calling to mind as it does the New Testament figure with whom he shares the book’s titular avocation.
After a lengthy stay in a maximum security prison, Lee King is returning to Orillia, Ontario, a community that still remembers his horrendous crime. His mother is dying, and he wants to see her and his sister Donna, after so many years. But things are not quite right in this town. Sam Maitland, a retired cop, knows this. He remembers Lee's unexplained violence from years before, and is also caught up in the mysterious death of Judy Lacroix, whose body he finds in a car at the abandoned drive-in. Sam can't help getting involved even though he is retired. He wonders about Lee King - will he ever understand where his violent streak comes from? When Lee finally faces who he is, the lives of his family are once again overturned, and his young nephew, Pete, discovers a family secret that has been hidden for years. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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sept12 - received my personalized copy from matt today - via michael & caroline!! YAY!!!
19oct12 - wow. that hurt. this book is a raw, hard gut-punch. i will be seeing/meeting lennox in two days, as part of the IFOA - international festival of authors - running in toronto. i am trying to think of the place he was writing from with this story. and i am having a bit of an ache in my heart that this depth of emotional pain is familiar (for very different reasons) and sorry that someone else (many other someones) is (are) sitting with this experience and knowledge. there are relatable moments and then utterly unrelatable moments that make me appreciate the storytelling going on here. that lennox can pull a reader into such unfamiliar territory yet have her understand the choices being made and the frame of mind of the characters is amazing. i'll be thinking about this book and the people within for a long time, i suspect. (