Your Secrets Sleep With Me [Paperback]

Darren O'Donnell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 19, 2000

Toronto's CN Tower has fallen into the lake. The city is crowded with refugees from the US. Michael and Ruth Racco's dad has, in a rash of road rage, perpetrated the Backhoe Massacre. And, in the middle of it all, little Jimmy Hardcastle has, in the fountain of a suburban mall, walked on water. As helicopters chop the air over Toronto and a paranoid America slides into fascism, kids from south of the border collide with kids from north of the border and, over lattes, ruminate on new possibilities. Your Secrets Sleep With Me is a frenetic, ruthlessly hilarious critique of power and politics. Brilliant, absurd, incisive and fun, this caffeinated novel will take you on a doomed search for the place where you end and everything else begins. But you will not be alone. Shhh. Don't worry. Your secrets sleep with us.

Editorial Reviews

Review

‘It [this book] is a vision of things completely at odds withe the inert portrait of life we're used to.' -- Sheila Heti

About the Author

Darren O’Donnell is a writer, award-winning director, actor, Dora-winning set designer and the artistic director of Mammalian Diving Reflex. His theatre credits include A Suicide-Site Guide to the City, White Mice, [boxhead], Who Shot Jacques Lacan?, Over and Mercy! He organizes the Talking Creature, an ongoing social experiment on the art of conversing with strangers.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: Coach House Books; 1 edition (May 19, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1552451380
• ISBN-13: 978-1552451380
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 4.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,222,503 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)