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The City Man

By Howard Akler

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The City Man

By Howard Akler

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March 6, 1934. Hundreds gather outside City Hall to celebrate the Toronto Centenary. In the crowd, pickpocket Mona Kantor and her partner, Chesler, are 'in the tip, ' finding easy pickings among the jostling masses. Eli Morenz, city man for the "Daily Star," is covering the festivities and uncovering the pickpocket racket working the scene. A surreptitious photo and some keen research lead him to an underworld dive in Kensington Market where Toronto's pickpockets converge - and to Mona. Moving from a tense newsroom on King Street to the frenetic grift at Union Station, "The City Man" is a romance that begins in an instant and careens towards peril. Akler's prose is as deft as a thief's fingers, as precise and powerful as a heavyweight's punch. Packed with enchanting, arcane period slang and comparable in its evocation of a lost Toronto to Michael Ondaatje's "In the Skin of a Lion," this is a novel of exceptional grace, excitement and beauty.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
160
Release Date:
2001-11-08
Publication Date:
2001-10-19
Publisher:
Coach House Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1552451585
ISBN13:
9781552451588
Weight:
95 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
193 cm
Thickness:
13 cm

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