The Saints Of Big Harbour
  • Published: 31 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448113644
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432

The Saints Of Big Harbour

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'Coady not only understands the passions of small-town life; she feels the comedy too' - Observer

Guy Boucher, a fatherless teenager oppressed by the boredom and poverty of rural Nova Scotia, is dominated by his monstrous uncle, Isadore - alcoholic, capriciously violent and preternaturally vital. Isadore, who is permitted to board with Guy and his mother in exchange for the use of his red pick-up truck, is determined to make a man of Guy by forcing him to drink and play hockey.

Guy dreams that access to the truck will be enough to attract a girlfriend from nearby Big Harbour. But when an awkward courtship turns sour, Guy touches off a sluggish tumult of violence fuelled by malice, booze and suffocating ennui.
  • Published: 31 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448113644
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432
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About the author

Lynn Coady

Lynn Coady was nominated for the 1998 Governor General's Award for her first novel, Strange Heaven. A collection of short fiction, Play the Monster Blind, won the Canadian Authors Association's Jubliee Award. She received the Canadian Authors Association/Air Canada Award for the best writer under thirty and the Dartmouth Book and Writing Award for fiction. She lives in Vancouver.

Praise for The Saints Of Big Harbour

A brilliant new voice in Canadian literature

David Adams Richards

Coady's achievement here in depicting small-town rumour as an almost elemental force is matched by the complexities of her character-making and by a rare restraint and control

Time Out

Rich and vibrant... Brilliantly written... In Isadore, Coady has created a memorable character. She is a rare talent

Ireland on Sunday

Sharply written, intelligently layered... It's themes are all dealt with in impressive detail

Guardian