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Heroes a novel
Author: Ray Robertson

Bayling Out on Life: When you watch your father lose his love of hockey - with the Leafs going down to defeat in the semi-finals against Los Angeles - and succumb quickly to cancer; when you see your sisters suicide as the result of her sudden loss of passions in all things British, Catholic and artistic; should you bail out on life? Shou... more »ld you reduce your emotional engagement to the study of Empiricus, whose philosophy centres on remaining removed? Forget your love of hockey? Lose interest in sex? Take up drinking and the occasional fight? Should you be afraid of life, afraid to feel? Peter Bayle, the protagonist of Ray Robertsons new novel, Heroes, does not give up - but he comes close, without taking the final step. From the security of a wood-panelled bar (not the kind of place in which to get drunk) Bayle has a long-overdue one-way talk with his younger sister, Patty, and he begins to put together the pieces of his life. On assignment to a mid-western American town, Bayle is to write an article for Toronto Living about the new-found love of middle America for the Canadian game of hockey. Hes at a low ebb in his own life. Back home in Toronto, his relationship with Jane (an editor at Toronto Living) has been steadily declining. His doctoral dissertation is written, but not in its final draft. His family has disintegrated. His relationship with Jane - not a winning situation to begin with - has fizzled. In Kansas Bayle backs into involvement. Through one drinking companion, the hockey journalist Davidson, he gets embroiled in the manipulations and conflicting agendas of the towns paper, the teams managers and the teams owners. In the midst of this, Davidson collapses and Bayle fills in for him, writing his columns and filing stories. Meanwhile, Bayle defaults on his commitments to Toronto Living and to Jane, but he does return to Toronto to face the life hes been assiduously avoiding. Written in a style that has been described as syncopated, sprawling, and filled with syntactic celebrations that rattle in your brain, Robertsons prose brings Peter Bayles groping towards meaning powerfully alive and allows us to live his life with him. Heroes unfolds with the complexity and emotional richness of a life actually being lived. It takes chances with structure and characters . . . "a sublime novel" according to Quill & Quire.

ISBN-13: 9780889242920
ISBN-10: 0889242925
Publication Date: 2/15/2000
Pages: 352
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Simon & Pierre
Book Type: Paperback
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