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list price: $11.95
edition:Paperback
category: Fiction
published: Jan 1998
ISBN:9781895636178
publisher:
Anvil Press
Description
Winner, 20th annual 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest
The Underwood is a poignant tale of a parentless twenty-one-year-old pianist who lands the job of lounge entertainer in a once glorious and elegant establishment. Enter the young Foster Lutz, and the hotel - including the lives of its inhabitants - is set for a spell of splendour and rejuvenation.
A loss-of-innocence novel set in an atmosphere pervaded with nostalgia and a yearning for a bygone era. Holden Caulfield meets Barton Fink.
Praise for The Underwood:
"... another sort of immigrant story ... funny and, at the risk of sounding Hollywood, heartwarming. And it's easy to read more than once." (Geist)
"this short book is better than many books ten times as long-or that took three years, not three days, to write." (Books in Canada: The Canadian Review of Books)
Contributor Notes
P.G. Tarr was born in Vancouver. He currently lives in Toronto and is working on a collection of short stories.
