Blind Crescent

by Michelle Berry

Overview

Welcome to Blind Crescent, where everyone is watching, but nobody sees a thing. In this fictitious slice of suburban life, Michelle Berry peels back the pretensions of manicured lawns and the rictus smiles of "friendly" neighbours. With a deft hand, she paints a picture of suburbia so absurdly real that every suburbanite reader can't help but feel strangely at home.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780888014429
Publisher:	Turnstone Press
Publication date:	07/15/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	881 KB

About the Author

Michelle Berry has been widely published in many Canadian literary magazines, national newspapers, and anthologies. She is the author of seven books of fiction, two novels of which have been published in the UK as well as Canada. Berry is a reviewer for The Globe and Mail, and teaches at the University of Toronto and Humber College. Born in California and raised in Victoria, B.C., Berry lives in Peterborough, ON with her family.

Editorial Reviews

Blind Crescent depicts dysfunctional suburbanites who are both disturbingly familiar and surreal, as fantastic as the inhabitants of the film Edward Scissorhands, as twisted as the neighbours we all live among.

—Antanas Sileika, Woman In Bronze

Berry’s prose has an austere, bleached quality, as if all extraneous material has been sizzled away. What’s left is deadpan and allusive and often pretty damned funny…

—The Globe and Mail

In Berry’s hands, ordinary circumstances are rendered as extraordinary, unsettling events and the reader must beware.

—Toronto Star

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