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Coady, Lynn, 1970-
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Poets -- Fiction.
Mentoring of authors -- Fiction.
Disappointment -- Fiction.
Prince Edward Island -- Fiction.
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Coady, Lynn, 1970-
Poets -- Fiction.
Mentoring of authors -- Fiction.
Disappointment -- Fiction.
Prince Edward Island -- Fiction.
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Mean
boy
/ Lynn Coady.
by
Coady, Lynn, 1970-
Doubleday Canada, c2006.
Call #:
FICTION COA
Subjects
Poets -- Fiction.
Mentoring of authors -- Fiction.
Disappointment -- Fiction.
Prince Edward Island -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780385659758
038565975X
9780385659765 (2007 Anchor Canada trade pbk.)
0385659768 (2007 Anchor Canada trade pbk.)
Description:
382 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary:
"Earnest, small-town Lawrence Campbell is fascinated by his poetry professor, the charismatic and uncompromising Jim Arsenault. Larry is determined to escape a life of thrifty drudgery and intellectual poverty working for his parents’ motel and mini-golf business on Prince Edward Island. Jim appears to the young poet as a beacon of authenticity – mercurial, endlessly creative, fearless in his confrontations with the forces of conformity. And he drinks a lot. Jim’s magnetic personality soon draws Larry’s entire poetry composition class into his orbit. Among the other literary acolytes are Sherrie Mitten, with her ringletted blonde hair and guileless blue eyes, the turtlenecked, urbane Claude who writes villanelles, and the champion of rhyming couplets about the heroic struggles of the Maritime proletariat, Todd. Casting a huge shadow over the group is the varsity football player and recreational drug user Chuck Slaughter – titanically strong, capriciously violent, hilariously indifferent to the charms of the poetic life – who has nearly given up terrifying Larry in order to pursue an awkward romantic interest in Sherrie. Drawn by ambition and fascination, the group assembles itself fawningly around Jim, tagging along to bars, showing up at readings, thrilled to be invited to Jim’s home, a shambling farmhouse in the woods where he lives with Moira, his shrewish backwoods muse. Lost in adulation, Larry is so delighted to be singled out for Jim’s attention that he does not pause to wonder what Jim expects from his increasingly close relationship with the young poet. Closely observed and deeply funny,
Mean
Boy
tells the story of Larry’s year-long battle against the indiscriminate use of quotation marks in advertising and his disillusionment as his narcissistic, hard-drinking idol spins out of control and threatens to take the young man’s cherished notions about art and poetry down with him."--Inside jacket.
Genre:
Canadian fiction.
Psychological fiction.
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