| Title | : | Backspring |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.61 (703 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1927428874 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-23 |
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Praise for Judith McCormack and BackspringNominated for the 2016 First Novel AwardA well-written and smart novel that unfolds many moments of profound and subtle beauty. McCormack’s treatment of details and prose are refreshing, confident, and attentive.”The Winnipeg Review"A joy to read."Nino Ricci"A wonderfully and uniquely gifted storyteller."Midwest Book ReviewEduardo, an architect from Lisbon, has come to Montreal to be with his wife Geneviève. Geneviève researches fungi and likes to catalog her orgasms. But when Eduardo is caught in an explosion and rumors of arson begin to circulate, both his marriage and his fledgling architecture firm verge on collapse. Gorgeous, colorful, and richly described, Backspring is a sensual taxonomy of desire.Judith McCormack, born near Chicago, has been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Award.
Editorial : Praise for Judith McCormack and Backspring
"A well-written and smart novel that unfolds many moments of profound and subtle beauty. McCormack's treatment of details and prose are refreshing, confident, and attentive."—The Winnipeg Review
"A joy to read."—Nino Ricci
"A wonderfully and uniquely gifted storyteller."—Midwest Book Review
"The stories are rich with bang-on physical description, unforced natural dialogue and the telling particulars of daily life a collection of substance."—Quill & Quire
"McCormack emerges as a skilled storyteller unlike any I've encountered."—The Globe & Mail
The two chapters in this book that deal with Cioran's so-called fascist sympathies and his seeming enthusiasm for totalitarianism as expressed in his still untranslated work "Romania's Transfiguration" are, in my opinion, the best and most illuminating in the book, especially when they are read in connection with the first half's final chapter, "Conclusion: The Lyrical Virtues of Totalitarianism".
(Note: I continue to be flabbergasted by the self-seeking liberties taken by publishers who do not hesitate to print the most false and misleading things about the books they are offering. I was almost holding a grudge myself with Ally Blue since she deprived me of that s ex scene (I only had to read of the two waking up together AFTER the crime), but she soon made amend and gave us a lot of other s ex scenes between the two, very much intense and good as I will say later on in this post, I believe that there is a reason for the author to not allowing us to see the performance of A
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