The Winter Gardeners

Fiction & Literature, Literary
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Author: Dennis Denisoff ISBN: 9781770562387
Publisher: Coach House Books Publication: October 16, 2003
Imprint: Coach House Books Language: English
Author: Dennis Denisoff
ISBN: 9781770562387
Publisher: Coach House Books
Publication: October 16, 2003
Imprint: Coach House Books
Language: English

In the town of Lake Wachannabee, Ontario, lies the Winter Garden, home to matron Giggy Andrewes and her brood: her strung-out nephew Jem Waferly, his friend Cora, Chappy the whippet, two peacocks, and Jem's lover Rob, who lies convalescing after having had most of his flesh stripped away.

A mystery? Well, yes, it would be if only the characters weren't so easily distracted by the noir-ishly handsome chief inspector, the seductive female veterinarian and the dashing anthropology professor studying the Winter Garden's gorge.

The Winter Gardeners spend a summer of sultry afternoons nursing Rob, languidly drinking cocktails and trying to picture Nude Descending Staircase in their supposedly Cubist garden. Soon, however, they find themselves in a court room, where their family's values are on trial in a case reminiscent of that of Oscar Wilde.

'Throught the novel, Denisoff uses imagery like a daredevil trapeze artist ... The Winter Gardeners is a surreal soap opera, a sexual satire, an Impressionist painting. And it should not be missed.' - Quill and Quire, starred review

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In the town of Lake Wachannabee, Ontario, lies the Winter Garden, home to matron Giggy Andrewes and her brood: her strung-out nephew Jem Waferly, his friend Cora, Chappy the whippet, two peacocks, and Jem's lover Rob, who lies convalescing after having had most of his flesh stripped away.

A mystery? Well, yes, it would be if only the characters weren't so easily distracted by the noir-ishly handsome chief inspector, the seductive female veterinarian and the dashing anthropology professor studying the Winter Garden's gorge.

The Winter Gardeners spend a summer of sultry afternoons nursing Rob, languidly drinking cocktails and trying to picture Nude Descending Staircase in their supposedly Cubist garden. Soon, however, they find themselves in a court room, where their family's values are on trial in a case reminiscent of that of Oscar Wilde.

'Throught the novel, Denisoff uses imagery like a daredevil trapeze artist ... The Winter Gardeners is a surreal soap opera, a sexual satire, an Impressionist painting. And it should not be missed.' - Quill and Quire, starred review

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