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Fiction Alternative History

Girl Crazy

by (author) Russell Smith

Publisher
HarperCollins Canada
Initial publish date
Jun 2010
Category
Alternative History
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781443400763
    Publish Date
    Jun 2010
    List Price
    $11.99
  • Downloadable audio file

    ISBN
    9781443417907
    Publish Date
    Jul 2012
    List Price
    $14.99 USD
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554685349
    Publish Date
    Apr 2010
    List Price
    $22.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554685356
    Publish Date
    Apr 2011
    List Price
    $23.99

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Description

Tightly plotted and fast paced, Girl Crazy is a cinematic ride through one man’s obsession with a younger woman. Justin, a dissatisfied community college teacher, meets Jenna and is attracted at once to her mixture of toughness, vulnerability and ripe sexuality. Jenna is unlike anyone Justin has ever known -- through her he discovers a world of drugs and sex, casual violence and intimidation that at first frightens and then thrills him.

Justin falls deeper into Jenna’s thrall, particularly as her erratic behaviour keeps him guessing. When Jenna ends the relationship abruptly, Justin finds he isn’t willing to let go of this new life, or of Jenna, without a fight.

About the author

Russell Smith was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and grew up in Halifax, Canada. He studied French literature at Queen's, Poitiers and Paris (III). Since 1990 he has lived in Toronto, where he works as a freelance journalist. He has published articles in The Globe and Mail, Details, Travel and Leisure, Toronto Life, Flare, NOW and other journals, and short fiction and poetry in Queen's Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Quarry, the New Quarterly, Carousel, Kairos, Toronto Life and other journals. Russell appears frequently on television and radio as a cultural commentator. In 1995 he won a Gold Medal at the American City And Regional Magazine Awards. Russell Smith is the author of six works of fiction; his first novel, How Insensitive, was short-listed for the Smithbooks/Books In Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction. In 2005 he was a juror for the Governor General's Award in Fiction (in English).

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