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Why men lie

MacIntyre, Linden. (Author).

Summary: Two years after the events of The Bishops Man, we're introduced to Effie MacAskill Gillis, sister of the troubled priest Duncan. Its 1997, and Effie is an independent, middle-aged woman working as a tenured professor of Celtic Studies, but her complicated and often disappointing love life has left her all but ready to give up on the opposite sex. Then suddenly, a chance encounter with a man on a Toronto subway platform gives Effie renewed hope. J.C. Campbell is an old friend she hasnt seen for more than 20 years an attractive, single man who appears to possess the stability and good sense she longs for. Effie met her last husband, Sextus, in her hometown of Cape Breton when the two were still children. As they grew older together, and started a family, she soon learned that when it came to other women, Sextus couldnt be trusted. After one too many betrayals, Effie leaves him behind, and so when she and J.C. seem to hit it off, his relaxed, open demeanour is a welcome change. But after a happy start to their relationship, cracks begin to show, and J.C. proves himself to be just as unpredictable as the others: one evening Effie spots him in a seedy part of town, but he denies ever having left his house; when she notices a scratch below his eye, he lies about its cause, blaming it on the cat. Then J.C., a journalist, becomes unhealthily engrossed in a story involving a convict on death row, and he and Effie begin to drift apart.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307360878 (trade pbk.) :
  • ISBN: 0307360865 (hc.)
  • ISBN: 9780307360861 (hc.) :
  • Physical Description: 368 p. ; 24 cm.
    print
  • Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Novel.
Jun 12
Target Audience Note:
All Ages.
Awards Note:
Winner of the Scotiabank Giller prize.
Subject: Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Fiction
Middle aged women -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Man and Woman relationships -- Fiction+
Remarried people -- Fiction
Truthfulness and falsehood
Male-Female Romance -- Fiction
Family -- Fiction
Marital conflict -- Fiction
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Canadian fiction.

Available copies

  • 49 of 50 copies available at Sitka.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Glenwood and Souris Regional Library. (Show preferred library)

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 0 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Glenwood and Souris Regional Library F MacInty 2012 (Text) 36764000006787 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Alert Bay Public Library AF MAC (Text) 35125000101893 Canadian Volume hold Available -
Bibliotheque St. Claude Library FIC MAC (Text) 36725000140210 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Boissevain-Morton Library F/Macintyre (Text) 3626600032089 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Bowen Island Public Library F MacI (Text) 30947000423836 Fiction Volume hold Available -
Bren Del Win Centennial Library F MacIntyre (Text) 36320000005385 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Castlegar Public Library FIC MAC (Text) 35146001741578 Fiction Volume hold Available -
Chetwynd Public Library FIC MAC (Text) 35222000947720 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Creston Public Library FIC MAC (Text) 35140000955180 Fiction Volume hold Available -
Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library F MAC (Text) DCL137017 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -

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