Broke City

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Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2019

ISBN-13: 9781988732749

&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p><i>Broke&#10;City</i>, the final book in Wendy McGrath's Santa Rosa trilogy, follows&#10;young Christine as she edges into self-awareness in the now-vanished Edmonton&#10;neighbourhood&#160;of Santa Rosa.</p><p>Budding with creativity&#10;that her working-class parents do not understand, Christine questions her&#10;parents' fraught relationship, with alcoholism and implicit violence bubbling&#10;just under the surface of their marriage. Her insight turns beyond her family&#10;to her neighbourhood, nicknamed Packingtown, a community built on meat-packing&#10;plants and abattoirs, on death.</p><p>Written with tight&#10;lyricism,&#160;<i>Broke City</i> is a brimming working-class gothic&#10;novel that reveals Christine's deepening knowledge of the adult world around&#10;her and of her own complicated place in that world.&#8239;</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><i>Broke&#10;City</i>, the final book in Wendy McGrath's Santa Rosa trilogy, follows&#10;young Christine as she edges into self-awareness in the now-vanished Edmonton&#10;neighbourhood&#160;of Santa Rosa.</p><p>Budding with creativity&#10;that her working-class parents do not understand, Christine questions her&#10;parents' fraught relationship, with alcoholism and implicit violence bubbling&#10;just under the surface of their marriage. Her insight turns beyond her family&#10;to her neighbourhood, nicknamed Packingtown, a community built on meat-packing&#10;plants and abattoirs, on death.</p><p>Written with tight&#10;lyricism,&#160;<i>Broke City</i> is a brimming working-class gothic&#10;novel that reveals Christine's deepening knowledge of the adult world around&#10;her and of her own complicated place in that world.&#8239;</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;