Crossing the Distance

by Evan Solomon

Story of two siblings: Theo, an eco-terrorist, and Jake, popular host of a Jerry Springer-style television talk show. When Jake's lover, academic and reluctant pop culture sibyl Rachel Poiselle, is brutally attacked, the media frenzy begins.

Solomon's novel is a complex wiring of harrowing plot, disturbing and cynical commentary on the self-centred world of North American media, and a compelling, if not entirely successful, exploration of the soul's journey through the morally uncompassed landscape of human affairs at the end of the twentieth century.

Genres: Canada, Fiction

384 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1999

Reviews

[Loretta Lee]

Found it slow at first, but last 100 pages were excellent.