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The Ticking Heart

September 10, 2019 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9781552453896
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Description

Part modern fable, part detective novel, a journey through grief in the imaginary world of Metaphoria.

One cold winter night, Charlie shares a cab with a stranger in a purple hat. As they talk, a cloud of purple smoke overwhelms him and he wakes up to find himself behind the only desk in the Epiphany Detective Agency. Charlie, as it turns out, is trapped in Metaphoria, an otherworldly place that reality has forgotten, a place where everything means something else. His first client is Shirley Miller, who insists on hiring Charlie to find her husband's missing heart. In fact, she's so insistent that she replaces Charlie's heart with a bomb. He has twenty-four hours to find Twiggy Miller's heart - and its meaning - or his own will explode.

Tender and brutal, optimistic and despairing, this modern fable by the author of the cult hit All My Friends Are Superheroes takes a fresh look at what it means to fall into, and out of, love.

About this Author

Andrew Kaufman was born in Wingham, Ontario, making him the second-most-famous Canadian writer to come from Wingham (after Alice Munro, of course). He is the author of international bestseller All My Friends are Superheroes, The Waterproof Bible, ReLit Award-winner The Tiny Wife, and Born Weird, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail andwas shortlisted for the Leacock award for humor. He lives and writes in Toronto.
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ISBN: 9781552453896
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 160
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: 2019-09-10

Reviews

"Irreverent and bursting prose... Fans of Mark Leyner will enjoy Kaufman's messy string of outrageous scenarios." --Publishers Weekly

"The Ticking Heart manages to use metaphor to encourage readers to consider the tangled mysteries of their own hearts - puffs of purple smoke not necessarily included." --Stacey Madden, Quill & Quire

"Tender and brutal, optimistic and despairing, this modern fable by the author of the cult hit All My Friends Are Superheroes takes a fresh look at what it means to fall into, and out of, love." --Hamilton Review of Books

"Kaufman's greatest strength has always been his playfulness, and The Ticking Heart flexes that strength." --Tara Cheesman, BARRELHOUSE

"Expansive and imaginative." --Kirkus Reviews

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