Mister Sandman
a novel
by Barbara Gowdy
Barbara Gowdy's outrageous, hilarious, disturbing, and compassionate novel is about the Canary family, their immoderate passions and eccentricities, and their secret lives and histories. The deepest secret of all is harbored in the silence of the youngest daughter, Joan, who doesn't grow, who doesn't speak, but who can play the piano like Mozart though she's never had a lesson.
Joan is a mystery, and in the novel's stunning climax her family comes to understand that each of them is a mystery, as marvelous as Joan, as irreducible as the mystery of life itself. In its compassionate investigation of moral truths and its bold embrace of the fractured nature of every one of its characters, Mister Sandman attains the heightened quality of a modern-day parable.
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Mister Sandman: a novel
1997, Steerforth Press
in English
- 1st American ed.
1883642337 9781883642334
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Donated in 1998-99 by Canadian authors and publishers through the efforts of Gary Geddes, Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture, Center for Canadian-American Studies.
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