The Garneau Block
- ISBN-10
- 0771009887
- ISBN-13
- 9780771009884
- Category
- Canadian fiction
- Pages
- 401
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Author
- Todd Babiak
Description
"The Garneau Block" follows the knowable citizens of the adored and hated city of Edmonton, capturing what we connect to in local stories and what is universal about modern life. Here, in what can only be described as a storytelling tour-de-force, we meet the warm, endearing, and delightfully flawed residents of a fictional cul-de-sac in the city's Garneau neighbourhood just after the scandalous death of a neighbour and the sudden news that their land is about to be repossessed by the university.
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