Monday Rent Boy
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1039006558
ISBN-13
9781039006553
Publisher
Random House Canada
Imprint
Random House Canada
Country of Manufacture
CA
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 19th, 2024
Print length
360 Pages
Weight
558 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 16.10 x 3.10 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
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FINALIST FOR THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION
CANADIAN BOOK CLUB AWARD WINNER
WORD GUILD AWARDS BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
In the mid-1980s Somerset countryside, two brilliant, misfit teenagers forge a bond that defies their harsh reality.
Arthur Barnes, a dreamer who finds sanctuary in literature, and Ernie Castlefrank, a mathematical prodigy with a fierce empathy for animals, are endearing outcasts whose fierce loyalty becomes their only armor against a world that refuses to protect them.
Guided by a radical independent bookseller Marina Phillips, Arthur learns to survive by looking forward. But Ernie, unable to ignore the sinister patterns he witnesses afflicting vulnerable children, dares to expose a hidden network of exploitation. When the authorities rebuff him and he vanishes without a trace, Arthur is left to bear the crushing weight of his own silence.
Decades later, Arthur has built a fragile adulthood on the foundations of forgetting. But as the digital age lifts the veil on long-buried crimes, the unanswered questions surrounding Ernie’s disappearance demand an answer. With Marina by his side, Arthur discovers a labyrinthine investigation that bridges the analog past with the dark architecture of modern trafficking and institutional complicity.
What unfolds is far more than a missing-person case. It is a visceral excavation of how trauma reverberates across generations, how systems designed to protect us choose to look away, and how the echoes of a single childhood friendship can alter the trajectory of a life.
Monday Rent Boy is unflinching in its gaze at humanity''s darkest impulses, yet it is ultimately a celebration of resilience. It is a story about the radical act of speaking up, the redemptive power of chosen family, and the quiet courage it takes to reclaim your voice after decades of silence.
CANADIAN BOOK CLUB AWARD WINNER
WORD GUILD AWARDS BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
In the mid-1980s Somerset countryside, two brilliant, misfit teenagers forge a bond that defies their harsh reality.
Arthur Barnes, a dreamer who finds sanctuary in literature, and Ernie Castlefrank, a mathematical prodigy with a fierce empathy for animals, are endearing outcasts whose fierce loyalty becomes their only armor against a world that refuses to protect them.
Guided by a radical independent bookseller Marina Phillips, Arthur learns to survive by looking forward. But Ernie, unable to ignore the sinister patterns he witnesses afflicting vulnerable children, dares to expose a hidden network of exploitation. When the authorities rebuff him and he vanishes without a trace, Arthur is left to bear the crushing weight of his own silence.
Decades later, Arthur has built a fragile adulthood on the foundations of forgetting. But as the digital age lifts the veil on long-buried crimes, the unanswered questions surrounding Ernie’s disappearance demand an answer. With Marina by his side, Arthur discovers a labyrinthine investigation that bridges the analog past with the dark architecture of modern trafficking and institutional complicity.
What unfolds is far more than a missing-person case. It is a visceral excavation of how trauma reverberates across generations, how systems designed to protect us choose to look away, and how the echoes of a single childhood friendship can alter the trajectory of a life.
Monday Rent Boy is unflinching in its gaze at humanity''s darkest impulses, yet it is ultimately a celebration of resilience. It is a story about the radical act of speaking up, the redemptive power of chosen family, and the quiet courage it takes to reclaim your voice after decades of silence.
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