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Author: Joan Barfoot
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May 2002
Crime and Consequence
by Nathan Whitlock
There is a great deal of good news and bad news in this, Joan Barfoot's ninth novel. The book begins with bad newsłthe worst news of the book, in fact. Isla, a middle-aged partner in an advertising firm, heads into town with her second husband, Lyle, to get celebratory ice creams cones in honour of Lyle's successful attempt at lowering his cholesterol. Lyle waits in the truck while Isla goes in for the cones, stepping right into the middle of what appears to be an armed robbery. Read more...
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 | Luck
by Joan Barfoot
Knopf Canada
308 pages $32.95 cloth
ISBN: 0676977006
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Running Out of Luck
by Ann Diamond
This is a dark, amoral comedy about love and mortality, and all the things in between, including those grey areas where life and death seem to merge and grow indistinguishable.
We know were the novel is set in Southern Ontario because the characters spend every waking minute subtly hating one another-except, of course, for the person they are married to, or currently having an affair with. Read more...
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