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Celebrate more than 150 years of Canada with 150 books.
(From From Quattro Books)
Set in Toronto’s seedy underbelly, The Green Hotel challenges our notions of ‘Toronto the good’. Rich in detail, the book engages us with gritty realism and a startling portrayal of a life steeped in sex, drugs and pyromania as a young man tries to cope with the anxiety of co-existing with a suicidal father. Despite the all-enveloping despair, the main character, through moments of deep reflection and self-awareness, manages to harvest some light from the darkness.
(From From Quattro Books)
Jesse Gilmour is a playwright and fiction author from Toronto. He is the subject of his father David Gilmour’s bestselling book, The Film Club. The Green Hotel is his first novel.
Barbara Gowdy has been nominated repeatedly for The Giller Prize, The Rogers Writer’ Trust Fiction Prize, The Governor General’s Literary Award, The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and has been longlisted for The Booker Prize. She is a Trillium Book Award winner, a Marian Engel Award winner, a member of The Order of Canada, and a Guggenheim Fellow.
Barbara Gowdy will be featured on our Amazon.ca Bestsellers Stage September 24 to present her newest title, Little Sister.