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Fiction Literary

Extraordinary

by (author) David Gilmour

Publisher
HarperCollins
Initial publish date
Aug 2014
Category
Literary
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781443423724
    Publish Date
    Aug 2013
    List Price
    $11.99
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781443423700
    Publish Date
    Aug 2013
    List Price
    $23.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781443423717
    Publish Date
    Aug 2014
    List Price
    $16.99

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Description

From a Governor General's Award-winning author comes a heart-rending novel about family, children and the end of life. Over the course of one Saturday night, a man and his half-sister meet at her request to spend the evening preparing for her assisted death. They drink and reminisce fondly, sadly, amusingly about their lives and especially her children, both of whom have led dramatic and profoundly different lives. Extraordinary is a powerful consideration of assisted suicide, but it is also a story about family-about how brothers and sisters turn out so differently; about how little, in fact, turns out the way we expect. In the end, this is a novel about the extraordinary business of being alive, and it may well be David Gilmour's very best work of fiction to date.

About the author

The critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling author of seven previous novels and one work of non-fiction (The Film Club), DAVID GILMOUR is one of Canada’s most notable writers. Winner of the 2005 Governor General’s Award for Fiction for A Perfect Night to Go to China, Gilmour has won the praise of literary figures as diverse as William S. Burroughs and Northrop Frye. For many years, David Gilmour was a fixture on Canadian television as the national film critic for CBC’s The Journal, as well as the host of his own Gemini-winning show, Gilmour on the Arts. He is presently the Pelham Edgar Visiting Professor of literary studies at Victoria College at the University of Toronto.

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