Catalog

Record Details

Catalog Search



Small game hunting at the local coward gun club  Cover Image Book Book

Small game hunting at the local coward gun club / Megan Gail Coles.

Coles, Megan, (author.).

Summary:

"February in Newfoundland is the longest month of the year. Another blizzard is threatening to tear a strip off downtown St. John's, while inside The Hazel restaurant a storm of sex, betrayal, addiction, and hurt is breaking. Iris, a young hostess from 'round the bay, is forced to pull a double despite resolving to avoid the charming chef and his wealthy restaurateur wife. Just tables over, Damian, a hungover and self-loathing server, is trying to navigate a potential punch-up with a pair of lit customers who remain oblivious to the rising temperature in the dining room. Olive, a young Indigenous woman far from home, watches it all unfurl from the fast and frozen street. It is through Olive, largely unnoticed by the others, that we glimpse the truth behind the scathing lies and unrelenting abuse, and it is her resilience that proves most enduring in the dead of this winter's tale. By turns biting, funny, poetic, and heartbreaking, Megan Coles' debut novel rips into the inner lives of a wicked cast of characters, building towards a climax that will shred perceptions and force a reckoning. This is blistering Newfoundland Gothic for the twenty-first century, a wholly original, bracing, and timely portrait of a place in the throes of enormous change, where two women confront the traumas of their past in an attempt to overcome the present and pick up the future."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781487001711 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: 426 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto : Anansi, 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Warning: contains scenes of sexual, physical and psychological violence."
Subject: Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Newfoundland and Labrador > Fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Show All Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lakeshore Branch FIC Coles 31681010138022 FICTION Available -


Additional Resources