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Effie Gillis is a history professor teaching at a major university. She is also a survivor - of a troubled childhood, two failed marriages and numerous relationships which, for the most part, ended badly. In her maturity she finds herself a source of solace and an object of desire for men who, like her, have aged but who, unlike her, remain obsessed by all the insecurities and superficial needs of adolescence. Now, out of her past, arrives a man who is familiar and yet mysterious; mature, wise, and full of youthful energy. His presence is a reassurance, but he also carries with him an aura that is menacing. Slowly she becomes dependent on a relationship that's rich in truth and promise - but doomed by the lie that gave it life. Drawing on both minor and major characters from his two previous novels, The Long Stretch and The Bishop's Man , Why Men Lie is a story of longing, love and loss in middle age.
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LINDEN MacINTYRE is a co-host of the fifth estate and the winner of 9 Gemini Awards for broadcast journalism. His bestselling first novel, The Long Stretch, was nominated for a CBA Libris Award and his boyhood memoir, Causeway: A Passage from Innocence, was a Globe and Mail Best Book and won the Edna Staebler Award for Non-Fiction and the Evelyn Richardson Prize. His second novel, The Bishop's Man, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Dartmouth Book Award and the CBA Libris Fiction Book of the Year; it has been published in the USA and the UK, and has been translated into 8 languages.
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"A taut intellectual thriller that proceeds at a stately pace in the early going but then races at maximum speed toward its inevitable, and lethal, conclusion." Toronto Star
"A novel for our time." Winnipeg Free Press
"Powerful and compelling." Robert J. Wiersema, National Post
"A nuanced novel.... MacIntyre can build suspense from thin air." MacLean's
"Why Men Lie has the flavour of a peaty single-malt." The Globe and Mail
"An impressively crafted page-turner.... Vintage Linden MacIntyre, and a crisp, compelling successor to the Cape Breton-born writer's first two novels." London Free Press
"A novel for our time." Winnipeg Free Press
"Powerful and compelling." Robert J. Wiersema, National Post
"A nuanced novel.... MacIntyre can build suspense from thin air." MacLean's
"Why Men Lie has the flavour of a peaty single-malt." The Globe and Mail
"An impressively crafted page-turner.... Vintage Linden MacIntyre, and a crisp, compelling successor to the Cape Breton-born writer's first two novels." London Free Press
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- PublisherRandom House Canada
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0224096958
- ISBN 13 9780224096959
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages384
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