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Críticas

A Generation X laureate (NEW YORK TIMES)

A subtle, brutal, and compelling read (Esther Freud)

Robinson is good, frighteningly good. She is a leader in the pack of young writers willing to take on the underside of human experience, and she does so with unwavering nerve and startling humour. You'll feel the sting of TRAPLINES revelations long after you put the book down (Gail Anderson-Dargatz, author of THE CURE FOR DEATH BY LIGHTNING)

This is a fine book- unflinching, moving and shockingly, bloodily funny. Eden Robinson offers a raw, muscular, urgent new voice: she writes from the heart and the more of that the better. I look forward to seeing what she'll do next. (A.L Kennedy)

Reseña del editor

Set within the harsh and insular milieu of contemporary urban Canada, these four novellas approach timeless themes of adolescence, parenthood and belonging from a unique and challenging perspective.

Responsible, perceptive Will Bolton finds himself caught between the chaos of his dysfunctional family and the security offered at the home of an English teacher ... a young woman struggles to exorcise the deathly legacy of her mother, a serial killer ... and the visit of a distant cousin wreaks havoc in the delicately balanced existence of Tom, an epileptic high-school student. These evocative and subtle studies dramatise not so much the loss, as the disturbing absence of innocence in the tortuous passage towards adulthood, where family contact is at once both agonisingly distant and violently close at hand.

In beautiful prose of deceptive simplicity and searing invention, TRAPLINES marks the emergence of a writer certain to assume a place alongside Carol Shields and Alice Munro in the vanguard of Canada's literary talent.