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Icarus: A Novel
by Young, Louise
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0919028497
- ISBN 13
- 9780919028494
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Hardcover. New. Hardcover New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket Sewn binding Cloth over boards 232 p Audience: General/trade Books in Canada The jacket copy for Icarus, by Louise Young, tells us it is a story about a search for the legendary Lost Lemon Mine However, the mine is never named in the text, while a one-or two-page summary of the legend would have truly benefited the novel Eight unlikable people get up an expedition to the Rocky Mountains of Southern Alberta after Icarus, the least obnoxious of three brothers (the other two are Gibson and Laird) finds a treasure map inside a book at a secondhand bookstore A black man and his girlfriend are invited along, as is a tenderfoot lawyer and his wife who have put up the money for the expedition; the eighth person is Gibson's wife, Ana It takes nearly 100 pages to set up the expedition, much of which is unnecessary The best writing advice I ever had came from one of Young's mentors, Lawrence Russell, "'"Don't explain, just begin "'" How I wish
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- Bookseller
- Pine Tree Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8973964801
- Title
- Icarus: A Novel
- Author
- Young, Louise
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0919028497
- ISBN 13
- 9780919028494
- Publisher
- Thomas Allen
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- This edition first published
- 2002
Terms of Sale
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