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Mon, May 26: Bike Lit Reading by Darryl Whetter
posted by Joe on Monday, May 26, 2008 - Permalink

Event: Bike Lit Reading by Darryl Whetter

When: Mon, May 26, 12 - 1 pm

Where: Nathan Philips Square (City Hall - 100 Queen St. W)

Description:

"Readings from a novel about sex, death and bicycling."
Author, journalist and professor Darryl Whetter will read from his bicycle novel The Push & the Pull. The novel centres on Andrew Day’s bicycle odyssey through eastern Canada.
As Andrew climbs one hill after another he realizes that “any desire is a weight.” The novel also compares the “second skeleton” and “naked machine” of the bicycle to the body of Andrew’s father, who suffered from a degenerative disease. In episodes of intensifying violence,
Andrew is forced onto the side of the road and must question what he will do to reach home and a love he may have forsaken.

Check www.darrylwhetter.ca/Readings for details.


For more information contact:
Phone: 902.837.5412

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