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The high-rise in Fort Fierce / Paul Carlucci.

by Carlucci, Paul.

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Goose Lane Editions, 2018.

9781773100265 (trade pbk.)

216 p. ; 21 cm.

The high-rise in Fort Fierce -- Wood toad -- Horses in circles -- There goes the Dog Star -- The summer I learned to fish -- Forty-two taxi -- Look at you, Percy -- Florida is a beach real soon -- As of right now.

"Drugs. Violence. Racism. Despair. The tiny, northern town of Fort Fierce has issues in spades, and most of them fester in the high-rise by the lake. Carlucci takes his readers through the ravaged history of Franklin Place, from its construction during the Cold War to its demolition decades later. We meet the Franklins themselves, three generations of landlords, each more paranoid and alienated than the last. And we meet their tenants: a drug dealer, a lonely bigot, a political activist, a struggling father, a wandering sex offender, a woman who refuses to give into it all. They wander in and out of each other's lives, with little in common but the building and the mould behind its walls. In The High-Rise in Fort Fierce, Carlucci immerses us in a dim yet eerily familiar world. Love and death, conflict and compromise, fear, determination, and the tense relations between indigenous and settler populations thread the warp and weft of his dark and irrepressible tapestry. We cannot look away" -- Provided by publisher.

Canadian fiction.

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