商品簡介
Eugenia Ledoux, nine years old, wakes to a farewell note from her father, Sheb Wooly Ledoux, portraitist. The adores her father, his lunatic charms, how he takes her fishing in the middle of the night and calls her Stunt. She was sure that one day he would, as he promised, take her to the moonscape of northern Ontario. Instead he fries five kippers, blows up a shoulder-pad factory and disappears. Heartbroken Eugenia is left behind with her mother, the sharp-edged former ingenue Mink, and her sister, the death-obsessed and hauntingly beautiful Immaculata.
When Mink vanishes too, Eugenia and Immaculata double in age overnight. Eugenia, now eighteen, sets off to find I. I. Finbar Me the Three, tightrope walker, voluptuary and the only due to Sheb's disappearance.
Studded with postcards from outer space, twins, synesthesia, several fires and some accomplished taxidermy, Stunt is part dirge, part cowboy poetry and part love letter to the wilder corners of Toronto and of ourselves.
作者簡介
Claudia Dey’s plays, including Trout Stanley, Beaver, and The Gwendolyn Poems, have been performed in New York, Toronto, Vancouver, and Zurich, and they’ve been nominated for a Dora Award and a Governor General’s Award. Claudia is a graduate of McGill University and the National Theatre School, and she writes the “Group Therapy” column in the Globe and Mail. Stunt is her first novel.
