Eugenia Ledoux wakes one morning to a note on the kitchen table: they depict, with compassionate hilarity and luminous heartbreak, the love betwee...
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Sep 14, 2011
Juushika
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When her father abandons the family leaving just a note behind, nine-year-old Eugenia begins a journey—through sudden adulthood, in search of her father, towards their tightrope-walking ancestor. Magical realism on a Toronoto landscape, Stunt is a tale of the half-believable strangeness of personal experience on the fringes of suburban life. Dey's voice is abrupt and image-laden, a near opposite of lyrical prose; instead it mirrors transcribed spoken poetry, and while that style can initially be
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Nov 11, 2009
Kate
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This is a beautiful book. It took me months and months to read because I found myself going over and over the same pages for fear of missing anything. The way she frames things is incredible it really is poetry as a novel, which i love!!!! It is so whimisical and fun. I loved "mrs and mrs. nextdoor" and the twins. The plot is fun, but it was the language i really fell in love with. I like that the author was brave enough to get so out there with prose. It's refreshing after reading so
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Jan 02, 2011
Tiffany
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The last ten pages of the book are some of the most beautiful I've ever read. But the book as a whole just didn't grab me. The writing itself is gorgeous, truly poetic, but the plot seemed overblown. Maybe I just didn't understand what the book was trying to accomplish? As soon as I read the first page, I knew it wasn't going to be my type of book. I don't have much else to say, unfortunately! There isn't anything technically wrong with it, and I can understand why some would even be mesmerized
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Nov 04, 2010
Aaron
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This wasn't a bad book simply because, as others have said, it's "poetry disguised as a novel." It's a bad book because it fails to do that well. Dey seems more concerned with the words she's supposed to use than the truth she's supposed to reveal. 'Stunt' reads like a drunken tangle and fails to either tell a story or resonate an experience. When I was finished, I felt nothing aside from relief that I was done and confusion about exactly what Dey was trying, and failing, to feel.
Jan 13, 2012
Tricia
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An incredibly creative book that took me a long time to finish because the prose is so complex and the plot shifts surreal. I finally surrendered to the language, forgetting about trying to follow the plot, and enjoyed the experience.
Jul 06, 2009
Karen
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Dey has a great voice and great characters. Very original. It's also great that it takes place in Toronto.
Sep 22, 2008
Myriam
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Loved it! Creative and intense. Surreal the way Isabel Allende's books sometimes are. Because the locale (Toronto) is familiar to me, it gave it an interesting flavor. One of the best new writer's books I've read in a long time.
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