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"Bennett demonstrates a real talent for evoking the affectless, indulgent "eccentricities" of the surpassingly (and perpetually) wealthy. . . . He can weave a tale and has the chops to keep it all in a literary vein . . . this is a good book with a crackerjack ending." —Globe and Mail
"Told with conscientious pacing and an eerie final twist." —Quill & Quire
"The very best of all number of worlds and influences, and so thoroughly enjoyable. Fiction to get lost in, and once you've found your way out, there’s much to reflect on about where you’ve been." —picklemethis.blogspot.com
"Bennett’s storytelling is effortless in its pace and time shifts, and his dialogue glints like a sharpened knife." —Walrus Magazine
"Bennett may be a poet, but he’s also a damn fine storyteller, as he proved with his first novel, After Battersea Park, which he proved again in his collection of short stories, 2003’s Verandah People, and which he proves conclusively in Entitlement. Was there ever a question that Jonathan Bennett was fast on his way to cementing his place in Canadian literature? There isn’t anymore." —January Magazine
"A brisk Canadian page-turner about the complex relationship between a poor boy and the wealthy, famous family that adopts him. . . . Entitlement embraces the Brideshead themes, but with suspense and drive; I read it in mere hours." —Philadelphia Weekly
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Entitlement is the tragic, wrenching story of Andy Kronk. After a lifetime intertwined with the Aspinalls, one of Canada’s wealthiest families, Andy has finally forged a clean break. Mere months pass, however, before his past returns, and he finds himself, obediently, digging
At its heart, Entitlement is a story about identity – about who we think we are and where we really stand. Set in rural Ontario and with excursions to Toronto and New York City, the novel takes a provocative and honest look at class, power, male relationships, death, and the familial bonds that tie, protect and harm us most.
Andy’s story is revealed to Trudy Clarke. Writing an Aspinall “tell-all” biography, she wants Kronk’s take for her book. Reluctantly, Andy agrees to talk. He begins by explaining that when he quit practising law, all he wanted was a clean start and the privacy to live life on his own terms. But, as he explains over the course of a weekend interview, his boyhood boarding school entanglement with one of Canada’s elite families became complicated – and remains strong. As the weekend progresses, Andy grows comfortable. When he realizes that he’s gone too far, said too much, it’s too late
Written in forceful prose, with a poet’s ear, Jonathan Bennett’s Entitlement does for the world of power and privilege what David Adams Richards has done for the hardscrabble blue collar men and women of his award-winning novels – tearing down myths to reveal something essentially, and always, heartbreakingly human.
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