Enforcer Billy Purdy has made a successful career out of pounding men into the ice. But what happens when that career comes to an end? And what happens when a soon-to-be published novel of a celebrated politician's son is in fact Billy's father's novel? Yearning for connection of any kind, yet unable to sustain it for any length of time, Billy Purdy comes to symbolize the alienation, frustration, and futility of trying to re-invent one's self.
Fiction. Inspired by real letters and actual events that transpired at a highly controversial, government-sponsored drug experiment in Toronto in 1972, FALLING FROM HEIGHTS offers a unique and penetrating portrait of that place and time. "A totally unique, groundbreaking piece of literature....This novel deserves its own course, and is destined to be a centerpiece of both Canadian Lit and modern Lit classes"--Barb Radmore. Prior to the publication of his first novel, Needham plied a piecemeal trade as bouncer, bartender, forklift driver, computer technician and magazine editor. He lives in Vancouver.
Fiction. Inspired by real letters and actual events that transpired at a highly controversial, government-sponsored drug experiment in Toronto in 1972, FALLING FROM HEIGHTS offers a unique and penetrating portrait of that place and time. "A totally unique, groundbreaking piece of literature....This novel deserves its own course, and is destined to be a centerpiece of both Canadian Lit and modern Lit classes"--Barb Radmore. Prior to the publication of his first novel, Needham plied a piecemeal trade as bouncer, bartender, forklift driver, computer technician and magazine editor. He lives in Vancouver.
Enforcer Billy Purdy has made a successful career out of pounding men into the ice. But what happens when that career comes to an end? And what happens when a soon-to-be published novel of a celebrated politician's son is in fact Billy's father's novel? Yearning for connection of any kind, yet unable to sustain it for any length of time, Billy Purdy comes to symbolize the alienation, frustration, and futility of trying to re-invent one's self.
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