- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Coach House Books (Oct 15 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1552452530
- ISBN-13: 978-1552452530
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.2 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #136,761 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Eye Lake is a sturdy and ... compelling novel, ripe with luminous prose and well-sustained metaphor, a fine investigation of isolation, work, family, the Canadian pioneer spirit and the doomed communities that linger in opportunity’s wake.' – National Post
'Hughes has done an exquisite job plotting Eye Lake, but this is only a small part of the novel’s pleasures ...[A] deeply satisfying read.' – Quill and Quire
'Rarely has there been a more endearing storyteller ... [Hughes's]story of a small town growing and declining on the whims of a few outsize personalities also is the story of families, boom to bust.' – Minneapolis Star Tribune
'Fittingly for 2012, folded within the seemingly simple narratives of Hughes’ novel, is a lovely rumination on what it means for the world to end, however small that world may be.' – THIS magazine
'Hughes is a very good writer, if "good writing" has to do with precision, eloquence, beauty and passionately held belief.' — Times Literary Supplement (on Revenant)
'A provocative exploration of the difficulty of leaving childhood behind, and about how being treated like an outsider all your life will leave you with a tragic sense of entitlement.' — The Walrus (on Revenant)
Book Description
Welcome to Crooked River, Ontario. Population 2851 and falling. Eli has lived in Crooked River his whole life. His father, uncle and grandmother are dead; he didn't know his mother, and his grandfather Clarence walked to the river one day and never returned. Eli's childhood friend, George, also went missing, back when they were kids, and was never seen again.
Eli has spent years wondering about both Clarence and George. Now the river, its course diverted years earlier to make way for a mine, is reclaiming its original path, and the lake is receding day by day. As the waters retreat, secrets come to light, and it seems as though Eli might finally learn what happened to his grandfather and best friend. Then a young boy disappears, pulling Eli's past into the present.
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