Monkey Beach
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Monkey Beach
By (Author) Eden Robinson
Little, Brown Book Group
Abacus
27th August 2001
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
813.54
Physical Properties
Paperback
384
Width 126mm, Height 204mm, Spine 24mm
420g
Description
Growing up a tough, wild tomboy, swimming, fighting and fishing in the remote Native village of Kitamaat, where the land slips into the green ocean on the northern edge of the world and strange things bubble below the surface, LisaMarie has always been different. Visited by ghosts and shapeshifters, tormented by premonitions, she can't escape the sense that something terrible is waiting for her at the end of the line. Then one day her little brother Jimmy goes missing at sea, and as LisaMarie sits waiting for news, aged nineteen but feeling a hundred, she sorts through the blackest secrets of her damaged life, in search of hope.
Wild, sensuous and terrifying, MONKEY BEACH binds our most primal fears to an exquisitely haunting landscape in an unforgettable modern ghost story.Reviews
'A compelling literary voice from Native Canada ... her talent is considerable' Julie Wheelwright, INDEPENDENT 'An absorbing, imaginative work' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Beautifully written and haunting, this is an impressive debut' TIMES METRO 'Accomplished ... we sense the author urging us towards the perceptiveness that has enabled her to create a graceful and impressive book' TLS
Author Bio
Eden Robinson won the WINIFRED HOLTBY fiction prize in 1998 for TRAPLINES (non-fiction winner was Graham Robb's Hugo Biography). This is her first novel.
