Author: Joan Barfoot. Published by Key Porter Books, Toronto, ON., 1999, 1st Edition. FLAT SIGNED by the Author on the title page. Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with light cover handling. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9 x 6 inch, 270 pages.
GETTING OVER EDGAR, A Novel by Joan Barfoot, is about Gwen Stone, and about when her husband Edgar leaves her, and then he's creamed by a train in his new little red sports car...
After behaving badly at the funeral, Gwen stops for a drink at a seedy bar where she's served by a young bartender, David, who has his own problems. The momentary encounter between the two sends both their lives off in unexpected directions.
"This is a delightful novel - wise, tender, and perhaps the funniest ever written about the difference between the male and female response to the mid-life crisis. Like Carol Shields and Margaret Atwood, Joan Barfoot is Canadian; and like them she explores the richness possible in an ordinary life. Such optimism is a rare thing in literary fiction, which typically confuses the solemn with the serious. Perhaps it comes with the territory, but it's clear at any rate that Canadian literature, having long been what Robertson Davies called 'the voice from the attic', is not that of the madwoman, but the sane." -Reviewed by The Times.
1st Edition & Signed by Author
ISBN: 9781552630110
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