- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: Dundurn (Jun 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 155002387X
- ISBN-13: 978-1550023879
- Product Dimensions: 22.3 x 14.1 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 440 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,233,290 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Love Object, Sally Cooper's first novel, begins like many others in small-town Ontario. In this constricted universe, life is often both depressing and unedifying. Seldom is humour involved. However, Cooper's book is a welcome exception. Apple Ford is a town with only four streets and distinct lack of night life, but as in a David Lynch movie, there is more to this small town than meets the eye. Sylvia, the crazy mother of Mercy, the young narrator, is the love object of the title. When Sylvia disappears, Mercy transfers her mother's seductive appeal into an obsession with her own body, while her brother takes on his absent parent's gender identity.
Although there are some dark moments, Cooper realizes that growing up in the country is just too absurd to take absolutely seriously and this results in some deliciously surreal moments and characters. Take Mercy's perpetually horny grandma, Vi, who fantasizes about her ex-boss at the local diner: "Dan's pubes were on my mind as he was giving me the 'you're fired' speech.... I pictured the hair taking territory, shooting tendrils up his abdomen, sliding down around the curve of his thighs. Even as he talked about how my surgery stories were losing him customers, my mind was running my fingers through that luxuriant pile." Although Love Object is still a recognizable coming-of-age story, it is closer to Tony Burgess's gothic evocations in Pontypool Changes Everything than to Alice Munro's classic tales. Sally Cooper's surprising, if off-balance, debut is not to be missed. --Robyn Gillam
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"Here is a first novel of great sensitivity...readers will be haunted by its pain and power." (David Greene The Leader Post 20020701)
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