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Watermelon Row

by (author) Michael Holmes

Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2000
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551520803
    Publish Date
    Mar 2000
    List Price
    $19.95

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Twenty-four hours is a lot of time to kill. Tomorrow, a life will hang in the balance. Watermelon Row, a suspenseful, intricately plotted novel, tracks a day in the life of three men on the brink of violence and ruin.
It tails Ed Harrison, a tough old man in his seventies, Scott Venn, a yuppie lawyer/sports agent, and Peter James, an unemployed loser, surveilling their dubious stories 'round the clock, from the relative sanctuary of their own beds to the place where they all fell most at home: The Rail--their favourite strip club--and their stage-side seats in "watermelon row."
Strangers whose lives curiously dovetail, each man needs to escape himself. In booze. In the illusion of sex. But, hellbent on self-destruction, somebody goes too far.
In the tradition of Martin Amis's Success and John O'Brien's Leaving Las Vegas, Michael Holmes offers a brutally candid view of desperate living. Watermelon Row is both haute noir, and a work of surprising beauty and grace.

About the author

Michael Holmes writes fiction, poetry, cultural criticism, and literary journalism. His work has appeared in This Magazine, Toronto Star, Carousel, Blood & Aphorisms, and eye Weekly, and he has published three books of poetry (James I Wanted to Ask You, Satellite Dishes From the Future Bakery, Got No Flag at All). Michael lives in Toronto.

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