Cohen, Matt Elizabeth and After ISBN 13: 9780312261511

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A lonely and tormented man returns to his small hometown of West Gull, Ontario, to heal his family's dark legacy of violence and alcohol abuse, reconcile with his young daughter, and to come to terms with the spirit of his late mother, killed several years earlier in a tragic accident. Winner of Canada's Governor General Award.

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Carl McKelvey returns to small-town Ontario, to a landscape marred by 'progress' and dotted by monster homes, to see more of his young daughter Lizzie, and to put behind him the legacy of violence and alcohol that brought about his divorce and subsequent departure. But he soon discovers he is being watched with great interest by two men: the town's most prominent businessman, and his ex-wife's new husband--both engaged in a power struggle that is played out by others in parking lots and rural terrain under hot night skies. But what he doesn't see at first--as he tries to bury his feelings for his former wife--is that a third man is watching: a man who once loved Carl's intelligent and engimatic mother.

This three-generational story of passion and subterfuge is limned with Matt Cohen's gift for language and a narrative tension that embraces descriptions of astonishing beauty and power.
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Elizabeth and After constantly surprises with its compassion and generosity, and its luminous appreciation of landscape and community." -- Governor General's Award Juror's Citation

"A superb piece of storytelling." -- Saturday Night

"A mature, funny, engaging ... wonderful novel ... that nails you to the chair cushions (or bed pillows) from start to finish."-- The Edmonton Journal

"A novel with the power to remind readers why they read fiction in the first place ... It comes at age-old sorrow and joys from a new angle, and so serves as a reminder that the most astonishing of miracles is simply to be alive." -- Maclean's

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  • PublisherPicador USA
  • Publication date2000
  • ISBN 10 0312261519
  • ISBN 13 9780312261511
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages370
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