Rare Birds - Softcover

Riche, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385658621 ISBN 13: 9780385658621

Publisher: Anchor Canada, 2001

Synopsis

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Dave Purcell is ready to call it quits on his marriage and his restaurant, The Auk. His wife has left for a posting at a Washington D.C. think tank and the restaurant, built on a remote cliff on Push Cove, Newfoundland, never really took off. Dave spends his days consuming the rare delights of his well-stocked wine cellar and larder. All seems lost until Dave’s neighbour, Alphonse Murphy, comes up with an ingenious scheme to save The Auk.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"One good story this one...as classy as it is irreverent."
-Tomson Highway

From the Inside Flap:

Dave Purcell is ready to call it quits on his marriage and his restaurant, The Auk.  His wife has left for a job at a "right leaning" Washington, D.C. think tank and the restaurant, like the ill-fated bird for which it was named, has never really taken off.

Disheartened and desperate, Dave endeavors to consume the rare delights of his well-stocked wine cellar and larder before they are repossessed by the bank.

All seems lost until Dave's neighbor, Alphonse Murphy, proposes a mad, yet ingenious scheme to save The Auk.  Soon, the restaurant is crawling with well-heeled gastronomes, vain celebrities and bellicose politicos.

However, Phonse Murphy has been up to some other tricks that have caught the attention of sinister forces, and because of Dave's involvement, it looks like the restaurant may well go the way of...the auk.

A laugh-out-loud novel by one of Canada's most gifted young writers, Rare Birds is a rare literary debut.

About this edition

• Publisher: Anchor Canada
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385658621
• ISBN 13: 9780385658621
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272