Blind Spot

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781927063668

&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p>&#8220;Some days&#10;I wish something truly bad would happen so that I would have something genuine&#10;to worry about.&#8221;</p><p>When his parents&#8217; car is hit by a train,&#10;Luke, a failed actor, returns to his Edmonton hometown to attend their funeral,&#10;wrap up their affairs, and prepare their house to be sold off. But while all&#10;others around him grieve, Luke remains detached, striking up a relationship&#10;with a woman in a neighbouring house &#8230; and&#10;stumbling across evidence that his mother may have engaged in a longstanding&#10;extramarital affair herself.</p><p>In Luke, Laurence Miall has&#10;crafted an unforgettable literary antihero, a man disconnected from the pain of&#10;those around him, yet blind to his own faults. With his clean, forceful&#10;language and a familiarity with the darker corners of the male psyche, <i>Blind&#10;Spot</i> is a gripping literary debut.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p>&#8220;Some days&#10;I wish something truly bad would happen so that I would have something genuine&#10;to worry about.&#8221;</p><p>When his parents&#8217; car is hit by a train,&#10;Luke, a failed actor, returns to his Edmonton hometown to attend their funeral,&#10;wrap up their affairs, and prepare their house to be sold off. But while all&#10;others around him grieve, Luke remains detached, striking up a relationship&#10;with a woman in a neighbouring house &#8230; and&#10;stumbling across evidence that his mother may have engaged in a longstanding&#10;extramarital affair herself.</p><p>In Luke, Laurence Miall has&#10;crafted an unforgettable literary antihero, a man disconnected from the pain of&#10;those around him, yet blind to his own faults. With his clean, forceful&#10;language and a familiarity with the darker corners of the male psyche, <i>Blind&#10;Spot</i> is a gripping literary debut.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;