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The Canal

by Lee Rourke
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An electrifying debut novel that becomes a shocking tale about... boredom
 
In a deeply compelling debut novel, Lee Rourke—a British underground sensation for his story collection Everyday—tells the tale of a man who finds his life so boring it frightens him. So he quits his job to spend some time sitting on a bench beside a quiet canal in a placid London neighborhood, watching the swans in the water and the people in the glass-fronted offices across the way while he collects himself.
 
However his solace is soon interupted when a jittery young woman begins to show up and sit beside him every day. Although she won't even tell him her name, she slowly begins to tell him a chilling story about a terrible act she committed, something for which she just can't forgive herself—and which seems to have involved one of the men they can see working in the building across the canal.
 
Torn by fear and pity, the man becomes...

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    October 27, 2010

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      • ISBN: 9781935554905

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      • ISBN: 9781935554905
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