This Body
Registered by loveamystery of Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on 7/11/2009
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
4 journalers for this copy...
I found this to be a very reflective book and a little sad.
This book is now on its way to a bookcrosser, who chose it out of a virtual bookbox that I was participating in. Enjoy!
Arrived today, thanks!
Read this on the bus today coming back from Spain, and it helped make the journey go more quickly. Will fill in more later.
Read this on the bus today coming back from Spain, and it helped make the journey go more quickly. Will fill in more later.
Just received in the mail from England. This book has been full circle now - back to British Columbia from Spain and England.
Great read! Never put it down. Wonderful characters... sensuous prose (and food).
Publisher's description:
Victoria, 61, wishes that she could shroud her life in the ghosts of the past, as she reads and re-reads letters from Kola, a man she met and fell in love with 30 years ago in Toronto. Now living in London, England—the last place her disappeared lover was seen—Victoria exists in a safe emotional void. Working as a chef for a fledgling organic business, she prefers to obsess over genetically modified tomatoes than to accept the caring attention of her friend and sometime lover, Lenny. When her sister dies in Guyana, leaving behind an eight-year-old son, Victoria finds herself his guardian. In her new role, she is suddenly forced to confront both the death of her past and the frighteningly real promise of the future.
This Body is a tender portrait of two people whose losses radiate and reflect against one another, each searching for truth, for love and for identity. Moving effortlessly and evocatively between London, Toronto and Guyana, the novel is enriched by recipes, letters and legends, revealing the traditions and tensions of a multicultural and politically volatile world.
Publisher's description:
Victoria, 61, wishes that she could shroud her life in the ghosts of the past, as she reads and re-reads letters from Kola, a man she met and fell in love with 30 years ago in Toronto. Now living in London, England—the last place her disappeared lover was seen—Victoria exists in a safe emotional void. Working as a chef for a fledgling organic business, she prefers to obsess over genetically modified tomatoes than to accept the caring attention of her friend and sometime lover, Lenny. When her sister dies in Guyana, leaving behind an eight-year-old son, Victoria finds herself his guardian. In her new role, she is suddenly forced to confront both the death of her past and the frighteningly real promise of the future.
This Body is a tender portrait of two people whose losses radiate and reflect against one another, each searching for truth, for love and for identity. Moving effortlessly and evocatively between London, Toronto and Guyana, the novel is enriched by recipes, letters and legends, revealing the traditions and tensions of a multicultural and politically volatile world.
Journal Entry 6 by eicuthbertson at Waves Coffee - Columbia St in New Westminster, British Columbia Canada on Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Released 13 yrs ago (7/28/2010 UTC) at Waves Coffee - Columbia St in New Westminster, British Columbia Canada
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Releasing at the Lower Mainland BookCrossing Meetup - New Westminster
July 27, 2010 at 7 pm
Waves Coffee
715 Columbia Street
New Westminster, BC V3M 1B2
Releasing for the 5 Continent, 5 Countries, 5 Books Challenge
Continent - America
Country - Guyana
July 27, 2010 at 7 pm
Waves Coffee
715 Columbia Street
New Westminster, BC V3M 1B2
Releasing for the 5 Continent, 5 Countries, 5 Books Challenge
Continent - America
Country - Guyana
Journal Entry 7 by Strude at Renaissance Books (12th St & 8th Ave) in New Westminster, British Columbia Canada on Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Released 13 yrs ago (9/29/2010 UTC) at Renaissance Books (12th St & 8th Ave) in New Westminster, British Columbia Canada
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I loved this book. I met some fascinating people through its pages and I made the Pissaladiere and will definitely make it again. Taking this to meetup. If no one takes it the owners will choose a place for the releases. Why not join us? It's a new location for us so who knows what will happen?
