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The Dancing Chicken: A Novel
by Susan Musgrave
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0458811807
- ISBN 13
- 9780458811809
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
First edition, first printing.
216 p. Red-orange hardcover with 1/4 cloth binding and red lettering to spine. Book shows some edgewear/bumping (see photos) but is internally Fine. The dust jacket also has edgewear, including a small tear, but is otherwise Near Fine and housed in a removable protective sleeve. Please see photos.
From the dust jacket:
Susan Musgrave is one of Canada's foremost poets whose work has been described as mesmerizing, startling and brilliant. When her first novel, The Charcoal Burners, was published in 1980, critics compared it favourably to works of Margaret Atwood, Marian Engel and Leonard Cohen.
THE DANCING CHICKEN represents yet another departure for this daring writer. It casts a satiric eye on the alliances and misalliances of small-town institutions and families, specifically the Holmes family. Cod Holmes, who considers himself unhappily married to Nora, is on the verge of falling in love with Ursula, who is slightly mad.
He is also spectacularly unfaithful with nurse Trout while visiting his daughter Brandy in hospital. Brandy and her lover have been shot down by the leader of a rival motorcycle gang, who then takes refuge in the woodshed of Cod's mother Miriam. Miriam believes him to be the resurrection of her long-dead husband Dodder. And so the family engages in the universal dance of sex and death in this mordantly funny new novel by one of our most imaginative writers.
Susan Musgrave has published, in addition to two novels, ten books of poetry, two juvenile works and numerous pamphlets and broadsides. She was raised on Vancouver Island in British Columbia and now lives with her daughter Charlotte and husband Stephen Reid in Sidney, B.C.
216 p. Red-orange hardcover with 1/4 cloth binding and red lettering to spine. Book shows some edgewear/bumping (see photos) but is internally Fine. The dust jacket also has edgewear, including a small tear, but is otherwise Near Fine and housed in a removable protective sleeve. Please see photos.
From the dust jacket:
Susan Musgrave is one of Canada's foremost poets whose work has been described as mesmerizing, startling and brilliant. When her first novel, The Charcoal Burners, was published in 1980, critics compared it favourably to works of Margaret Atwood, Marian Engel and Leonard Cohen.
THE DANCING CHICKEN represents yet another departure for this daring writer. It casts a satiric eye on the alliances and misalliances of small-town institutions and families, specifically the Holmes family. Cod Holmes, who considers himself unhappily married to Nora, is on the verge of falling in love with Ursula, who is slightly mad.
He is also spectacularly unfaithful with nurse Trout while visiting his daughter Brandy in hospital. Brandy and her lover have been shot down by the leader of a rival motorcycle gang, who then takes refuge in the woodshed of Cod's mother Miriam. Miriam believes him to be the resurrection of her long-dead husband Dodder. And so the family engages in the universal dance of sex and death in this mordantly funny new novel by one of our most imaginative writers.
Susan Musgrave has published, in addition to two novels, ten books of poetry, two juvenile works and numerous pamphlets and broadsides. She was raised on Vancouver Island in British Columbia and now lives with her daughter Charlotte and husband Stephen Reid in Sidney, B.C.
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- Bookseller
- The Mortuary Korps
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000171
- Title
- The Dancing Chicken
- Author
- Susan Musgrave
- Illustrator
- Kimberly Hart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0458811807
- ISBN 13
- 9780458811809
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, ON, Canada
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- fiction; sex and death; love triangles; interpersonal relations; married people; marriage; man-woman relationships; murder; infidelity; cheating; adultery; family drama; bikers; gang violence; madness; 20th century; British Columbia; Canadian author; wome
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Crime Fiction; Humour; Gender, Sexual, and Relationship Diversity;
- Size
- 24
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