Men walking on water
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345811011 (paperback)
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Physical Description:
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regular print
551 p. ; 23cm. - Publisher: Toronto, ON : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2017.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A novel"--Front cover. |
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Subject: | Criminals -- Fiction Smuggling -- Fiction Canadian fiction Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 3 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 | Schu (Text) | 33294001993732 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
"Men Walking on Water opens on a bitter winter's night in 1927, with a motley gang of small-time smugglers huddled on the banks of the Detroit River, peering towards Canada on the opposite side. A catastrophe has just occurred: while driving across the frozen water by moonlight, a decrepit Model T loaded with whisky has broken the ice and gone under--and with it, driver Alfred Moss and a bundle of money. From that defining moment, the novel weaves its startling, enthralling story, with the missing man at its centre, a man who affects all the characters in different ways. In Detroit, a young mother becomes a criminal to pay down the debt her husband, assumed dead, has left behind; a Pentecostal preacher brazenly uses his church to fund his own bootlegging operation even as he lectures against the perils of drink; and across the river, a French-Canadian woman runs her booming brothel business with the permission of the powerful Detroit gangsters who are her patrons."