Some things about flying - Softcover

Joan Barfoot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550139088 ISBN 13: 9781550139082

Publisher: Key Porter Books, 1997

Synopsis

Lila and Tom are airborne, en route to their first real holiday together since beginning their affair more than five years ago. Free, Lila things, if only for two weeks - free from the constraints of secrecy, free to act on mutual desire. Then the dramatic and unexpected happen, and Lila must look, as she has never looked before, at the grounds on which she has based her life, even as they seem to drop from beneath her. Is Tom the man she thinks he is? Is Lila the woman she wants to be? And what, after all, is freedom? Compelling and sharply drawn, Some Things about Flying cunningly dismantles male-female relationships with tremendous wit and insight. (1997)

About this title

About the Author

Joan Barfoot is an award-winning novelist whose work has been compared internationally with that of Anne Tyler, Carol Shields, Margaret Drabble and Margaret Atwood. Her novels include Luck in 2005, nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, as well as Abra, which won the Books in Canada first novels award, Dancing in the Dark, which became an award-winning Canadian entry in the Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals, Duet for Three, Family News, Plain Jane, Charlotte and Claudia Keeping in Touch, Some Things About Flying, and Getting Over Edgar. Her 2001 novel, Critical Injuries, was longlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the 2001 Trillium Book Award. In 1992 she was given the Marian Engel Award. Also a journalist during much of her career, she lives in London, Ontario, Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Key Porter Books
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1550139088
• ISBN 13: 9781550139082
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208