Spin Dry
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Price:
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$18.95
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On Sale:
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23/03/2006
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Formats:
Trade PB
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When it first appeared in 1992, Spin Dry received rave
reviews, won the Georges Bugnet Award for the Novel and was shortlisted for the
Smith’s/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Set in a suburban sleep
disturbance clinic, Spin Dry follows the story of a woman who undergoes
dream deprivation in order to discover the identity of a man obsessing her
husband. It’s a comic satire of husbands and wives, female friendship,
daughters and mothers, obsessive love and psychological scrutiny in a suburban
age. This novel of post-war angst was the first to confirm Greg Hollingshead,
one of Canada’s most original storytellers, as a virtuoso writer.
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Critical Praise for
Spin Dry
"Hollingshead’s light touch disguises an almost cruelly uncompromising honesty.... Watch yourself question everything you think is real."
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Edmonton Journal
"An energetically imaginative, precisely focused satire, with a delightful sense of comic timing."
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Books in Canada
"Brilliant and funny. Every line sparkles with originality and intelligence. One of the most original books to come out of this country."
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Barbara Gowdy
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Conspiracies and paranoia sweep across England in the aftermath of the French Revolution, landing tea broker James Tilly Matthews in Bethlem Hospital, a notorious, crumbling home for the insane. Although delusional, Matthews also appears to be incarcerated for unspecified political reasons, a pawn...
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