Dr. Brinkley's tower
Record details
- ISBN: 9780887843198 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 0887843190 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781586422035
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Physical Description:
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418 p. : ill ; 21 cm.
420 p. ; 21 cm. - Publisher: Toronto : House of Anansi Press, c2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes questions for discussion. |
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Genre: | Historical fiction. Canadian fiction. |
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- 10 of 10 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
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- 0 current holds with 10 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | Houg (Text) | 33294001882653 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
Equal parts Mark Twain and Gabriel García Márquez, Robert Hough's wildly imaginative new novel takes us to 1931 and Corazón de la Fuente, a tiny Mexican border town where the only industry is a run-down brothel. Enter Dr. Romulus Brinkley and his gargantuan radio tower, built to broadcast his revolutionary goat-gland fertility operation. Fortunes in Corazón change overnight, but not all for the good. Word of the new prosperity spreads, and the town is overrun by the impoverished, the desperate, and the flat-out criminal. The tower's frequencies are so powerful the whole area glows green, and the signal is soon broadcasting through every bit of metal it can find: fencing wire, toasters, even a young woman's new braces. Meanwhile, Dr. Brinkley has attracted the affections of Violeta Cruz, Corazón's most beautiful resident. But is he really all that he seems?