Deluded Your Sailors - Softcover

Butler Hallett, Michelle

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6 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897174772 ISBN 13: 9781897174777

Publisher: Breakwater Books Ltd., 2011

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In Deluded Your Sailors, the culture industry is a weapon, a victim, and an opportunity, depending on the perspective of two main figures: the unsteady but perceptive Nichole Wright, whose discovery of crucial documents threatens a government-funded tourism project, and the politely menacing, shape-shifting Reverend Elias Winslow. And in parallel storytelling: an early eighteenth-century girl, daughter of a nameless prostitute, winds up first as object of depraved pleasure, espionage agent and courier, and finally captain of a Salem trading vessel. Her desperately threaded disguise holds until her unacknowledged past crashes into her frail present. Trapped, and finally forced to reveal many things kept hidden, she refuses to be exploited any further. But her defiance exacts a terrible cost.

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About the Author:

One of Canada's most courageous and original literary voices, Michelle Butler Hallett writes axe-books -- "you know, for that frozen sea inside us" -- and refuses to apologize for violating genre and gender boundaries. Her work includes the critically acclaimed novels Double-blind, Sky Waves, and the short story collection The Shadow Side of Grace. She lives in St. John's and blogs at Aether punch.

Review:

"Michelle Butler Hallett's shimmering sentences lure you and before you know it you are in the chronically self-deceived mind of narrator Josh Bozeman. Double-Blind is a thoroughly addictive literary thriller." -Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, author of Way Up and The Nettle Spinner

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