Losing Eddie is a first novel stunningly narrated by a nameless nine-year old who sees herself as the outsider in her own family. Inside her home, disaster draws her mother into bouts of sadness and drives her father to drink. Her brother-in-law is a drinker, too, and abusive, so her sister has come home with her twin babies. Her older brother, Eddie, just out of jail, seems determined to get put back in. Her accident prone younger brother sops up whatever attention remains. Our little narrator watches, records, recounts. Seeing, hearing, touching, and storing it up to tell back to herself in one thing. Making sense of it is another.
The physical setting of this child's story is defined by a two-lane road that cuts through a remote corner of New Brunswick, Canada. The emotional setting is the strife and struggle of poverty---in all its guises, a place laid open by a child's clear and unjudgmental account of one year's tribulation inside its farmhouses, graveyards, churches, inside its one-room school and its charity old folks' home. Privy to the inner workings of this scrappy girl's mind, the reader is witness to her discovery of herself against the dark backdrop of daily turmoil. To watch her turning her crystalllized observations toward the light is to understand the staunchness of human curiosity and intellect. To hear her, at the very end of her story, name herself in a narrative voice that rings forth with her sharp, innocent perception of love, is to know how miracles work.
Corey's haunting portrayal of a rural family in crisis won the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award.
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The physical setting of this child's story is defined by a two-lane road that cuts through a remote corner of New Brunswick, Canada. The emotional setting is the strife and struggle of poverty---in all its guises, a place laid open by a child's clear and unjudgmental account of one year's tribulation inside its farmhouses, graveyards, churches, inside its one-room school and its charity old folks' home. Privy to the inner workings of this scrappy girl's mind, the reader is witness to her discovery of herself against the dark backdrop of daily turmoil. To watch her turning her crystalllized observations toward the light is to understand the staunchness of human curiosity and intellect. To hear her, at the very end of her story, name herself in a narrative voice that rings forth with her sharp, innocent perception of love, is to know how miracles work.
Corey's haunting portrayal of a rural family in crisis won the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award.
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REVIEWS
"One of the most confident debuts Canadian fiction has seen in some time." - Maclean's
"This debut is coming at you with the speed and force of a running horse, the glide of a hawk, and the strong hope of a child." - Andre Dubus
"Deborah Joy Corey has fashioned a chilling and compelling novel of a harsh world with skill, intensity, and compassion." - Alice Hoffman
"Deborah Joy Corey approaches her material with a feather-light touch and fine wit. The novel moves with the steady rhythm of a child's growth and discovery to a conclusion that soars breathlessly with quiet affirmation." - The London Free Press
"This riveting story of the wounded world of a nine-year old girl with make a deep impression on any reader." - The Reader's Review, San Francisco
"The short, probing sentences of this novel are absolutely luminous, and the book mixes compassion and observation, a rare feat." - David Homel, Books in Canada
"A mesmerizing journey marked by dreamlike vignettes and beautifully written passages. With attentive faithfulness to the young narrator's
viewpoint, the writer has composed a small simple song that echoes in the mind long after the book is closed." - Commercial Appeal, Memphis
"Losing Eddie is a haunting and breathtaking literary debut." - The Sunday Daily News
"This beautiful book is poetic, yet without artifice." - Booklist
RADIO REVIEW
"Losing Eddie, a radio play adapted from Deborah Joy Corey's award winning novel is a dramatic little powerhouse. Clearly, Corey has as good an
instinct for radio as for the printed page." - The Globe and Mail, Toronto.
"One of the most confident debuts Canadian fiction has seen in some time." - Maclean's
"This debut is coming at you with the speed and force of a running horse, the glide of a hawk, and the strong hope of a child." - Andre Dubus
"Deborah Joy Corey has fashioned a chilling and compelling novel of a harsh world with skill, intensity, and compassion." - Alice Hoffman
"Deborah Joy Corey approaches her material with a feather-light touch and fine wit. The novel moves with the steady rhythm of a child's growth and discovery to a conclusion that soars breathlessly with quiet affirmation." - The London Free Press
"This riveting story of the wounded world of a nine-year old girl with make a deep impression on any reader." - The Reader's Review, San Francisco
"The short, probing sentences of this novel are absolutely luminous, and the book mixes compassion and observation, a rare feat." - David Homel, Books in Canada
"A mesmerizing journey marked by dreamlike vignettes and beautifully written passages. With attentive faithfulness to the young narrator's
viewpoint, the writer has composed a small simple song that echoes in the mind long after the book is closed." - Commercial Appeal, Memphis
"Losing Eddie is a haunting and breathtaking literary debut." - The Sunday Daily News
"This beautiful book is poetic, yet without artifice." - Booklist
RADIO REVIEW
"Losing Eddie, a radio play adapted from Deborah Joy Corey's award winning novel is a dramatic little powerhouse. Clearly, Corey has as good an
instinct for radio as for the printed page." - The Globe and Mail, Toronto.
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POLISH:
Ta historia to swiat widziany oczami dziewiecioletniej dziewczynki, Bezimiennej - prawie do samego konca - narratorki opisujacej kilka miesiecy z zycia bliskich jej osób gdzies daleko od wielkiego swiata i jego zagrozen. Chociaz takze i tu zycie zastawia swoje pulapki. Starszy brat trafil w koncu na resocjalizacje, co chyba jednak nie przyniesie efektu. Starsza siostra ma meza, który ja bije, ale od którego odejsc nie moze. Ojciec - w efekcie tragicznych wydarzen - odwiezie mame do zakladu zamknietego na leczenie. A sam wybierze zapijanie smutków. No i szkolne kolezanki równiez potrafia zaszokowac zwierzeniami...
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