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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A really fast read, partly because it was short but mostly because it was fascinating. I had a hard time putting it down. Full review: http://www.canadianauthors.net/a/akler_howard/city_man_the.php no reviews | add a review
Fiction.
Literature.
Mystery.
Thriller.
HTML: Nominated for a Commonwealth Writers Prize, a Toronto Book Award and an Amazon.ca First Novel Award. March 6, 1934. Hundreds gather outside City Hall to celebrate the Toronto Centenary. In the crowd, pickpocket Mona Kantor and her partner, Chesler, are "in the tip," finding easy pickings among the jostling masses. Eli Morenz, city man for the Daily Star, is covering the festivities and uncovering the pickpocket racket working the scene. A surreptitious photo and some keen research lead him to an underworld dive in Kensington Market where Toronto's pickpockets converge – and to Mona. Moving from a tense newsroom on King Street to the frenetic grift at Union Station, The City Man is a romance that begins in an instant and careens towards peril. Akler's prose is as deft as a thief's fingers, as precise and powerful as a heavyweight's punch. Packed with enchanting, arcane period slang and comparable in its evocation of a lost Toronto to Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion, this is a novel of exceptional grace, excitement and beauty. Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country's greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors. .No library descriptions found. |
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I can't get it out of my head. I think about pickpocketers even today. Every time I go to Union Station, I think to the past, to the characters, as if they were real. And I guess they were. ( )