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The Proxy Bride

By (author): Terri Favro

A debut novella by Terri Favro. Niagara like you’ve never seen it before!

AUTHOR

Terri Favro

Raised in Niagara wine country, Terri Favro grew up with an electrician father who worked with the first factory robot and built his own robots at home. The experience fueled Favro’s lifelong love of science fiction, comic books, and space exploration. A novelist, storyteller, essayist, and graphic novel writer, Favro is also an award-winning advertising copywriter who worked on campaigns for emerging technologies that changed the world. Terri lives in Toronto.


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The Proxy Bride is a compact epic, replete with passion, betrayal, skullduggery and midnight escapes. You will never see Ontario’s Niagara Region the same way again.

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In Niagara of the 1960s, a mysterious proxy bride arrives from Italy to marry a candy shop owner with crime connections, only to fall in love with her proxy husband’s teenaged son. Part fairy tale, part gritty realism, The Proxy Bride explores the underbelly of a southern Ontario community steeped in gambling, smuggling and pornography.In Niagara of the 1960s, a mysterious proxy bride arrives from Italy to marry a candy shop owner with crime connections, only to fall in love with her proxy husband’s teenaged son. Part fairy tale, part gritty realism, The Proxy Bride explores the underbelly of a southern Ontario community steeped in gambling, smuggling and pornography.

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Details

Dimensions:

120 Pages
5.25in * 8.5in

Published:

November 20, 2012

Publisher:

Quattro Books

ISBN:

9781927443156

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Language:

eng

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