The Canal
- ISBN-10
- 1935554018
- ISBN-13
- 9781935554011
- Category
- Boredom
- Pages
- 199
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Melville House
- Author
- Lee Rourke
Description
The unnamed narrator not only admits his life is a drag; he embraces banality. Disgusted by his inane office job, he quits and spends every morning on a bench along a London canal, watching waterfowl in the park and aircraft above, and commuters headed to and from their deathtrap jobs. When a mysterious young woman begins to join him on the bench, recounting strange stories and confessing lies, and a gang of thugs begins to pester him, the narrator questions the meaning of love, violence, and nature.
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