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From Scotiabank Giller-winner Linden MacIntyre, a powerful exploration of justice and vengeance, and the peril that ensues when passion replaces reason, in a small town shaken by a tragic death.Forced to retire early from his job as a corrections officer in Kingston Penitentiary, Tony Breau has limped back to the village where he grew up to lick his wounds, only to find that Dwayne Strickland, a young con he’d had dealings with in prison is back there too–and once again in trouble. Strickland has just been arrested following the suspicious death of a teenage girl, the granddaughter of Caddy Stewart, Tony’s first love. Tony is soon caught in a fierce emotional struggle between the outcast Strickland and the still alluring Caddy. And then another figure from Tony’s past, the forceful Neil Archie MacDonald–just retired in murky circumstances from the Boston police force–stokes the community’s anger and suspicion and an irresistible demand for punishment. As Tony struggles to resist the vortex of vigilante action, Punishment builds into a total page-turner that blindsides you with twists and betrayals.
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| Weight | 0.4 kg |
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| Dimensions | 3 × 13.62 × 20.3 cm |
| PubliCanadation City/Country | Canada |
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| Pages | 432 |
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| Year Published | 2015-6-2 |
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| ISBN 10 | 034581391X |
| About The Author | LINDEN MacINTYRE's bestselling first novel, The Long Stretch, was nominated for a CBA Libris Award and his boyhood memoir, Causeway: A Passage from Innocence, won both the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction and the Evelyn Richardson Award. His second novel, The Bishop's Man, was a #1 national bestseller, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Dartmouth Book Award and the CBA Libris Fiction Book of the Year Award, among other honours. The third book in the loose-knit trilogy, Why Men Lie, was also a #1 bestseller as well as a Globe and Mail "Can't Miss" Book. His novels Punishment and The Only Cafe were also national bestsellers, as was his 2019 work of non-fiction, The Wake. A distinguished broadcast journalist, MacIntyre, who was born in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, and grew up in Port Hastings, Cape Breton, spent twenty-four years as the co-host of the fifth estate. He has won ten Gemini awards for his work. MacIntyre lives in Toronto with his wife, CBC radio host and author Carol Off. They spend their summers in a Cape Breton village by the sea. |
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE OLA EVERGREEN AWARDWINNER OF THE JIM CONNORS DARTMOUTH BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONFINALIST FOR THE CBC BOOKIE AWARDS“The novel is a gripping mystery. . . . the reader remains on the edge of his or her easy chair.” —The Kingston Whig-Standard“Linden MacIntyre proves once again how adept he is at dealing with the topical and the taboo. . . . Punishment has a puzzle of a plot and will surely keep most readers guessing until the final pages. . . . MacIntyre has painted a brilliant picture of a small community where the close and far-reaching ties that bind can also strangle.” —Winnipeg Free Press“Knife-twistingly powerful. . . . I have never read anything quite like it. . . . It urges a reader to stay up deep into the night as I did, flipping pages feverishly. . . . Punishment . . . is its own wondrous beast, every bit as vigorous as Lehane’s own brilliant work. With it, MacIntyre cements his reputation as one of our country’s most vital writers.” —Craig Davidson, The Globe and Mail “Punishment is another winner that displays all of MacIntyre’s talent for character development, for sympathetic treatment of people’s foibles and shortcomings, and for descriptions of landscapes—with the addition of amazing crime novel twists and turns. . . . [A]n absolute frenzy of unexpected exposés.” —Waterloo Region Record |
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