Splitsville
Howard Akler
(Author)
Description
It's 1971. Hal Sachs runs a used bookstore. Business isn't so great, and the store is in a part of Toronto that's about to be paved over with a behemoth expressway. And then Hal meets Lily Klein, an activist schoolteacher who'll do just about anything to stop the highway. It's love at first sight. Until it isn't. And then Hal vanishes. A half-century later, Hal's nephew, Aitch, waits for his baby to be born as he tries to piece together facts and fictions about Hal's disappearance. Splitsville is a diamond-cut love letter to a city whose defining moment was to say 'no way' to a highway, and a look at the obsessions that carry down through a family.Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
Coach House Books
Publish Date
September 25, 2018
Pages
160
Dimensions
5.0 X 0.5 X 8.0 inches | 0.4 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781552453735
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About the Author
Howard Akler is the author of The City Man, which was shortlisted for the Amazon First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Prize, and the City of Toronto Book Award, and Men of Action, an essay about consciousness and fatherhood, also nominated for the City of Toronto Book Award.
Reviews
'[Akler's] The City Man is a fast and iridescent look at the world of big-city pickpockets circa 1934 ... Akler delivers the goods with originality and flare, with language as gorgeous as a Jean Harlow pin-up and dialogue sharper than a burst from a Thompson submachine gun.' - The Globe and Mail
'Like Harley J. Spiller's Keep the Change, Howard Akler's Men of Action similarly compresses a great deal -- whole lives -- into a very few pages ... As might be expected, Men of Action delves into the father-son relationship, while also encompassing the father's life, the parents' marriage and the son's youth in Toronto, where Mr. Akler still lives. But its more submerged subject is the act of writing itself, which is demonstrated with the carefully observed, resonant economy of poetry.' -- The New York Times Holiday 2015 Gift Guide
'Like Harley J. Spiller's Keep the Change, Howard Akler's Men of Action similarly compresses a great deal -- whole lives -- into a very few pages ... As might be expected, Men of Action delves into the father-son relationship, while also encompassing the father's life, the parents' marriage and the son's youth in Toronto, where Mr. Akler still lives. But its more submerged subject is the act of writing itself, which is demonstrated with the carefully observed, resonant economy of poetry.' -- The New York Times Holiday 2015 Gift Guide
