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The Alcoholic’s Daughter

By (author): David Sherman

For Annie and Evan it was love at first sight. To the outside world, Annie was vivacious and charming, a successful broadcaster and writer. But once they start living together, Evan discovers Annie works desperately to hide her all-consuming fears, obsessions and neuroses. And her alcoholism. Evan believes love is forever and will conquer all. But soon Annie’s closeted physical and verbal abuse, control and emotional disorders turn his life upside down. Sex, drugs and booze offer little succor but the true nightmare begins when Evan decides he’s had enough and finds himself behind bars. He soon discovers the legal system delivers little justice, has its own penchant for abuse and men have few rights.

AUTHOR

David Sherman

Sherman’s an author, playwright, singer/songwriter and former journalist and editor with The Gazette in Montreal. His checkered past includes stints as a screenwriter, CBC Radio producer and documentary film producer. A recovering gym rat, he writes for a blog he started: You’re Going to Die. Live with it, shops, drinks coffee and watches tourists in the small Laurentian town in which he lives and consorts with his guitar nightly. He performs on occasion in the mountains and in Montreal. He likes to cook with his partner in a home they share surrounded by a forest of birch trees, to which he is allergic. For hobbies, he takes allergy meds and feeds carrots to the deer and suet to the woodpeckers. Previous publications include the play Have A Heart, the novel The Alcoholic’s Daughter and a collection of essays on the decline of the newspaper biz, Fish Wrapped: True Confessions of Newsrooms Past.


Reviews

David Sherman has a unique ability among Canadian writers of being able to maintain the edge of reality while he transforms it into entertaining, gut-wrenching thought-provoking fiction.


A compelling debut … A terrific read, a story that flows seamlessly, with believable characters and familiar scenes of the Plateau neighbourhood. It will have you thinking about your own relationship, and how you deal with the inevitable roadblocks to the harmony we all seek.


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For Annie and Evan it was love at first sight. To the outside world, Annie was vivacious and charming, a successful broadcaster and writer. But once they start living together, Evan discovers Annie works desperately to hide her all-consuming fears, obsessions and neuroses. And her alcoholism. Evan believes love is forever and will conquer all. But soon Annie’s closeted physical and verbal abuse, control and emotional disorders turn his life upside down. Sex, drugs and booze offer little succor but the true nightmare begins when Evan decides he’s had enough and finds himself behind bars. He soon discovers the legal system delivers little justice, has its own penchant for abuse and men have few rights.

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Details

Dimensions:

245 Pages
8in * 5in * 0.5in
280gr

Published:

April 01, 2017

City of Publication:

Hamilton

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Guernica Editions

ISBN:

9781771831598

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Literary

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Language:

eng

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