Exit Lines

Zusatztext Striking . . . sparkling and inventive! full of penetrating wit! sharp observation and touches of compassion which are moving! yet unsentimental. . . . Exit Lines is more fine fiction from a gifted writer always one step ahead of the reader. The London Free Press [A] fine! fine novel The Vancouver Sun The novel's true and most valuable elements [are] the webs of human interconnectivity! the disloyalties! snippiness and! uniquely! the empowered appreciation of old age as the continuation of a life. . . . Another worthy Barfoot novel of disarming insight and complexity. Toronto Star [ Exit Lines ] displays Barfoot's wry wit and deft take on spoken! and unspoken! relationships. Edmonton Journal Biting! sly! sardonic . . . Exit Lines is shot through with pathos! poignancy and insights about aging on virtually every page. The Gazette (Montreal) This is powerful stuff . . . a poignant read that unsettles! haunts and disturbs with the best literary sensibility. The Independent Barfoot's clarity of insight! wicked sense of humour and zest for life shine through this darkly compelling work. The Canadian Press A vivacious examination of life and what makes it worth living. Barfoot finds a witty balance between domestic fiction and the novel of ideas. Calgary Herald A must-read for anyone who plans to get old or doesn't plan to! but gets there anyway. . . . Fun! engaging and compelling. Winnipeg Free Press Informationen zum Autor Joan Barfoot is the award-winning author of eleven novels, including Abra , winner of the Books in Canada Prize for First Novel; Critical Injuries , longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Trillium Award; and Luck , shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her work, which reviewers have variously called 'harrowing and hilarious', and 'gloriously subversive', has been compared internationally to the fictions of Carol Shields, Anne Tyler, Margaret Atwood and Margaret Drabble. Her other books include Dancing in the Dark , which was adapted into an award-winning Canadian entry in the Cannes, Toronto, and New York Film Festivals; Duet for Three ; Family News ; Plain Jane , Charlotte and Claudia Keeping in Touch ; Some Things About Flying ; Getting Over Edgar ; and Exit Lines. A recipient of the Marian Engel Award, she has also been a journalist during much of her career. She lives in London, Ontario, Canada. Klappentext The Idyll Inn! the setting for Joan Barfoot's brilliant eleventh novel! Exit Lines! is a pastel-hued care facility designed for seniors "with healthy incomes but varying hopes! despairs! abilities and deformities. In scathing detail! Barfoot describes the Idyll Inn's plastic plants! inoffensive art and pallid recreational activities! all familiar to any reader who has had occasion to visit such a place or to live in one. Running the show (or so she thinks) is priggish administrator Annabelle Walker! charged with keeping the residents happy! or at least as happy as is required to keep a tidy profit flowing to far-away investors. But not all residents of the Idyll Inn choose to acquiesce. Sylvia Lodge! one of the Idyll Inn's first residents! prides herself on her steely backbone! despite crippling arthritis. Affluently widowed! she has selected the Idyll Inn as a less objectionable alternative to a perilous dwindling at home. She coolly refuses to be bossed! certainly not by Annabelle Walker (about whose family Sylvia keeps a dark secret)! or by her estranged daughter! Nancy! from whom she keeps yet another! even more explosive! secret. Sylvia is determined to unapologetically lay claim to her lifetime of choices! responsibilities and blame! not yet aware th...

“Striking . . . sparkling and inventive, full of penetrating wit, sharp observation and touches of compassion which are moving, yet unsentimental. . . . Exit Lines is more fine fiction from a gifted writer always one step ahead of the reader.”
— The London Free Press

“[A] fine, fine novel”
— The Vancouver Sun

“The novel’s true and most valuable elements [are] the webs of human interconnectivity, the disloyalties, snippiness and, uniquely, the empowered appreciation of old age as the continuation of a life. . . . Another worthy Barfoot novel of disarming insight and complexity.”
— Toronto Star

“[Exit Lines] displays Barfoot’s wry wit and deft take on spoken, and unspoken, relationships.”
— Edmonton Journal

“Biting, sly, sardonic . . . Exit Lines is shot through with pathos, poignancy and insights about aging on virtually every page.”
— The Gazette (Montreal)

“This is powerful stuff . . . a poignant read that unsettles, haunts and disturbs with the best literary sensibility.”
— The Independent

“Barfoot’s clarity of insight, wicked sense of humour and zest for life shine through this darkly compelling work.” — The Canadian Press

“A vivacious examination of life and what makes it worth living. Barfoot finds a witty balance between domestic fiction and the novel of ideas.”
— Calgary Herald

“A must-read for anyone who plans to get old or doesn’t plan to, but gets there anyway. . . . Fun, engaging and compelling.”
— Winnipeg Free Press

Autorentext
Joan Barfoot is the award-winning author of eleven novels, including Abra, winner of the Books in Canada Prize for First Novel; Critical Injuries, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Trillium Award; and Luck, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her work, which reviewers have variously called ‘harrowing and hilarious’, and ‘gloriously subversive’, has been compared internationally to the fictions of Carol Shields, Anne Tyler, Margaret Atwood and Margaret Drabble. Her other books include Dancing in the Dark, which was adapted into an award-winning Canadian entry in the Cannes, Toronto, and New York Film Festivals; Duet for Three; Family News; Plain Jane, Charlotte and Claudia Keeping in Touch; Some Things About Flying; Getting Over Edgar; and Exit Lines. A recipient of the Marian Engel Award, she has also been a journalist during much of her career. She lives in London, Ontario, Canada.

Klappentext
The Idyll Inn, the setting for Joan Barfoot's brilliant eleventh novel, Exit Lines, is a pastel-hued care facility designed for seniors "with healthy incomes but varying hopes, despairs, abilities and deformities.” In scathing detail, Barfoot describes the Idyll Inn's plastic plants, inoffensive art and pallid recreational activities, all familiar to any reader who has had occasion to visit such a place — or to live in one. Running the show (or so she thinks) is priggish administrator Annabelle Walker, charged with keeping the residents happy, or at least as happy as is required to keep a tidy profit flowing to far-away investors.

But not all residents of the Idyll Inn choose to acquiesce. Sylvia Lodge, one of the Idyll Inn's first residents, prides herself on her steely backbone, despite crippling arthritis. Affluently widowed, she has selected the Idyll Inn as a less objectionable alternative to a perilous dwindling at home. She coolly refuses to be bossed, certainly not by Annabelle Walker (about whose family Sylvia keeps a dark secret), or by her estranged daughter, Nancy, from whom she keeps yet another, even more explosive, secret. Sylvia is determined to unapologetically lay claim to her lifetime of choices, responsibilities and blame, not yet aware that her icy solitude will shortly be broken by the company of three soon-to-be-intimate frien…

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