Mister Sandman
by:
Barbara Gowdy (author)
Gowdy’s “delightfully quirky novel”(New York Times Book Review) about an oddball Toronto family is “so brilliantly crafted and flat-out fun to read that she makes sinners of us all” (Washington Post Book World). A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.
Gowdy’s “delightfully quirky novel”(New York Times Book Review) about an oddball Toronto family is “so brilliantly crafted and flat-out fun to read that she makes sinners of us all” (Washington Post Book World). A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780156005777 (0156005778)
Publish date: April 1st 1998
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
I knew I was in for a treat when I opened my copy of the new edition of Barbara Gowdy's 1995 novel Mister Sandman, and saw that the foreword was written by Katherine Dunn, author of the weird and wonderful Geek Love. I wasn't disappointed. Set in Toronto in the late fifties through the early sevent...
Family dynamics...truth seen through eyes of brain-damaged child... odd, odd, odd.
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