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Onyx John
Lorsque nous rencontrons Onyx John Cameron pour la première fois, il est confortablement installé sur la côte du Maine avec sa sensuelle maîtresse Oréo. Mais cet idyllique tableau s’altère à mesure qu’Onyx dévoile son passé et les circonstances tragiques qui l’ont poussé à la fuite.
Pour retrouver son innocence perdue et échapper à son destin de paria, il se fait délateur et revient à Montréal, mais rien n’y est plus comme avant. Traqué par le caïd Zoltan Tinodi, Onyx John se lance à la poursuite de son père disparu mystérieusement. Un roman éblouissant qui foisonne de personnages excentriques et bizarres.
Pour retrouver son innocence perdue et échapper à son destin de paria, il se fait délateur et revient à Montréal, mais rien n’y est plus comme avant. Traqué par le caïd Zoltan Tinodi, Onyx John se lance à la poursuite de son père disparu mystérieusement. Un roman éblouissant qui foisonne de personnages excentriques et bizarres.
441 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 6, 1985
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Trevor Ferguson
24 books16 followersTrevor Ferguson, aka. John Farrow is a Canadian writer who has written nine novels and four plays and has been named Canada's best novelist in both Books in Canada and the Toronto Star. Under the name John Farrow, he has written three crime novels featuring Émile Cinq-Mars; both are highly acclaimed and popular around the world. He was raised in Montreal and lives in Hudson, Quebec.
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February 21, 2022
I have been doing a re-read of all of Trevor Ferguson's novels Jan/Feb 2022 beginning with his John Farrow works. I had never read Onyx John before, though, as the copy I own is in French. And, despite me being at ease speaking French, I have never undertaken reading a 390 page Roman, en français. So, I tackled it, and enjoyed it immensely!
This is the memoir of Onyx John, the son of a free spirit and an alchemist. A story of passion, and compassion, from rags to riches and ultimately greed. The happenstance when evil moves into your home, onto your street and into your lives, luring you into the delights of money, then making toxic everything it touches. Some unsettling scenes, but apropos for the eras.
Set in the 50's, 60's and 70's, there hard times and fun times and laughs, living some wild and crazy lifestyles from free love and hippies, to the filthy rich, of love and lust, prostitution and promiscuousness, from growing up on the wrong side of the tracks to getting on the wrong side of a bad man. This is the rise and fall of Onyx John.
This is the memoir of Onyx John, the son of a free spirit and an alchemist. A story of passion, and compassion, from rags to riches and ultimately greed. The happenstance when evil moves into your home, onto your street and into your lives, luring you into the delights of money, then making toxic everything it touches. Some unsettling scenes, but apropos for the eras.
Set in the 50's, 60's and 70's, there hard times and fun times and laughs, living some wild and crazy lifestyles from free love and hippies, to the filthy rich, of love and lust, prostitution and promiscuousness, from growing up on the wrong side of the tracks to getting on the wrong side of a bad man. This is the rise and fall of Onyx John.
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