Toronto : Accidents de parcours

by Linda Spalding, André Alexis, Elizabeth Hay

Rien de bien inquiétant, croit-on à première vue, derrière les surfaces lisses et propres qui dessinent les contours d'une ville assoupie. Pourtant, des trottoirs humides de Dundas aux lampadaires grisâtres de Parkdale, les formes qui se reflètent dans la nuit sont comme de drôles d'oiseaux de malheur. Ce sont les signes volatiles d'un grand jeu de piste urbain où il faut cavaler à perdre haleine pour ne pas être rattrapé par le passé, l'exubérance du désir ou la folie des grands espaces.

250 pages, Paperback

Published April 16, 204

About the author

Linda Spalding, Kansas-born Canadian fiction and nonfiction writer, often explores world cultures and the clash between contemporary life and traditional beliefs. Born in Topeka, she lived in Mexico and Hawaii before moving to Toronto, Ontario in 1982.

Spalding's work has been honoured numerous times. Her non-fiction work, The Follow, was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award and the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize and she has since received the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the Canadian literary community.

Her novel, The Purchase, won the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award.

She has two daughters and is currently married to novelist Michael Ondaatje. Linda, her daughter Esta, and Michael are also on the editorial board of the Canadian literary magazine, Brick.