Publication

2015 - McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, Ontario

Language

English

Word Count

66,000 words, Guess

Page Count

264 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDCC813/.54
  • LCCPR9199.3.V384 D34 2015

Description

Among these nine stories: A teenage boy breaks out of the strict confines of his family, his bid for independence leads him in over his head. He learns about life in short order and there is no turning back. An actor's penchant for hiding behind a role, on and off stage, is tested to the limits and what he comes to discover finally places him face to face with the truth. With his mother hospitalized for a nervous condition and his father away on long work stints, a boy is sent to another family for his meals. His gradually building relationship with a teenage daughter who has been left handicapped from Polio opens unexpected doors to the world. In the title story, a middle-aged man meets his former adviser at university, a charismatic and domineering professor dubbed Daddy Lenin. As their tense reunion progresses, secrets from the past painfully revise remembered events and threaten to topple the scaffolding of a marriage.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Daddy Lenin: and other storiesMcClelland & Stewart2015-01-01

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