Canasta Players
- Publisher
- Turnstone Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1990
- Category
- Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888011497
- Publish Date
- Jan 1990
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
There’s an ominous crack in the surface of the upscale suburban world of The Canasta Players, a world inhabited by Michael Saunders, a middle-aged professor who discovers the good life is a little too rich for his blood. Torn between a beautiful career-driven wife and an enigmatic lover, trapped on a stock market roller-coaster and tormented by recurring chest pains, Samuels becomes a desperate man playing for time—but the odds are against him.
About the author
Wayne Tefs was born in Winnipeg and grew up in northwestern Ontario. He has edited a number of anthologies and published nine novels and a work of non-fiction. His novel Moon Lake received the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction in 2000 and his novel Be Wolf won the 2007 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. He lives in Winnipeg with his wife and son.