Alphabet
- Publisher
- McArthur & Company
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2011
- Category
- General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781770871199
- Publish Date
- Jun 2011
- List Price
- $14.99
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Description
Simon Austen is serving a life sentence for murder. Intelligent but illiterate, charming but also damaged and manipulative, he admits to what he’s done but his motives are far from clear, even to himself. Then Simon learns to read and write. From his high security prison he begins an illicit correspondence with a series of women. The more he learns – about them and about himself – the higher the stakes become. Simon finds himself on a perilous and unpredictable journey as he stumbles towards self-knowledge and redemption.
About the author
Canadian writer KATHY PAGE was born in the UK, moved from London to Canada in 2001, and now lives on Salt Spring Island, BC. The Story of My Face was long-listed for the Orange Prize, and Alphabet was nominated for a Governor General’s award in 2005.
Editorial Reviews
“Page throws mixed up hope into a world where only fantasies and delusions dare to grow… when I got to the end of Alphabet, I found myself longing for more.”
Globe and Mail
