Martha Baillie

The Incident Report (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Strikingly original in its structure, composed of highly distilled, lyric reports in which you discover if Rigoletto, the hunchbacked jester from Verdi's opera is alive and living in Toronto.

In a Toronto library, notes appear, written by someone who believes he is Rigoletto, the hunchbacked jester from Verdi's opera. Convinced that the young librarian, Miriam, is his daughter, he promises to protect her. Little does he know how much loss she has already experienced; or does he? Strikingly original in its structure, composed of 140 highly distilled, lyric reports, the novel depicts the tensions between private and public storytelling and the subtle dynamics of a socially exposed workplace. Reports on bizarre public behavior intertwine with reports on the private life of the novel's narrator. Both mystery and love story, The Incident Report daringly explores the fragility of our individual identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tin House Books
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781941040003
• Artikelnr.: 59590179

Autorenporträt

Martha Baillie is the author of four novels and has been published in Canada, Germany, and Hungary. Her poems have appeared frequently in journals such as Descant, Prairie Fire, and the Antigonish Review. Her nonfiction piece The Legacy of Joseph Wagenbach was published by Brick: a literary journal. Her most recent novel, The Incident Report, was a Globe and Mail Best Book and was long-listed for the Giller Prize. She lives in Toronto.