The Fortunate Brother
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- 54,99 zł
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- 54,99 zł
Publisher Description
The acclaimed author of Sylvanus Now continues her rural Newfoundland family saga with this award-winning, international bestselling novel.
Life for Kyle Now and his siblings was never easy in the Canadian fishery village where they grew up. But with adulthood come both freedom and regret. Kyle certainly regrets urging his brother Chris to go west—only for him to find work, and then his death, on an oil rig. Now death appears to be haunting the family: Kyle’s mother Addie receives a troubling diagnosis, and his father Sylvanus has yet to give up drinking. With his sister Sylvie adrift somewhere in the world, Kyle would seem to be the fortunate one… until the body of a local thug washes up on the family wharf.
The third novel in Donna Morrissey’s Now family saga, The Fortunate Brother is a dark, atmospheric novel about the aftermath of a murder in a claustrophobic rural community in Newfoundland. Compassionate and wise, beautiful and brutal, it is the story of a family and a community in turmoil that confirms Donna Morrissey's place as one of Canada's foremost storytellers.
Winner of the 2017 Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing, Best Novel
Winner of the 2017 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Shameful secrets abound in Canadian author Morrissey's strong conclusion to her trilogy about the Now family set in rural Newfoundland (after Sylvanus Now). Sylvanus Now does a poor job of hiding his drinking from his wife, Addie; Addie has cancer, but won't tell daughter Sylvie; and son Kyle tries to hide all his insecurities from both parents as he continues to mourn his brother, Chris, who was killed by a truck years before. Other residents of the village of Hampden have their secrets. Why does Bonnie Gillard stay with her abusive husband, Clar? Who is newcomer Kate Mackenzie, the guitar playing singer-songwriter whom Kyle likes to visit? Why does elusive Vernon Trapp skulk around the community? When someone fatally stabs Clar, Kyle, who recently confronted him, becomes a suspect, as does Sylvanus. Helpful friends provide fabricated alibis for Kyle and Sylvanus, complicating things for Sergeant MacDuff, the crime's quietly competent investigator. Morrissey's bleak portrait of harsh village life will linger long in the reader's memory.
