Final word: Coady's Cape Breton roots figure large in this novel. Above all, Mean Boy is about storytelling, the way you might expect to hear it told down east around a dinner table. It is driven by characters, big as life, with a lilt in their voice and a drink in their hand.
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Mean Boy
Earnest, small-town Lawrence Campbell is fascinated by his poetry professor, the charismatic and uncompromising Jim Arsenault. Larry is determined to escape a life of thrifty drudgery and intellectual ...
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1 - Natalie Bennett
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