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Description for Midnight Cab
Paperback. Good, clean copy
A three-year-old boy is abandoned at the side of a country road. His mother whispers to him to hold on to a wire fence. She never returns. The boy is eventually found - holding-on so tightly that the wire is cutting into his hands. Well-dressed, but without identification, the only clue to his background is a photograph of two young girls and teenager's letter found in his pocket. Sixteen years later, Walker Devereux discovers the truth about his early life. Who are his parents? Why was he abandoned? And if, as he remembers dimly, his mother loved him, ... Read more
A three-year-old boy is abandoned at the side of a country road. His mother whispers to him to hold on to a wire fence. She never returns. The boy is eventually found - holding-on so tightly that the wire is cutting into his hands. Well-dressed, but without identification, the only clue to his background is a photograph of two young girls and teenager's letter found in his pocket. Sixteen years later, Walker Devereux discovers the truth about his early life. Who are his parents? Why was he abandoned? And if, as he remembers dimly, his mother loved him, ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841955674
SKU
KSG0003884
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About James Nichol
James W. Nichol has been a prominent playwright in Canada since 1970. Midnight Cab was inspired by his immensely popular radio drama of the same name, broadcast on CBC in thirty-five half-hour episodes. He lives in the country near Stratford, Ontario. Midnight Cab won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel and was shortlisted for the CCWA Gold Dagger. ... Read more
Reviews for Midnight Cab
A compulsive and suspense-drenched read.
Elle
Refreshing . . . I read the book in one fell swoop.
Vancouver Sun
Hypnotic . . . Nichol's elegantly simple and taut prose becomes addictive.
The Globe and Mail
In Midnight Cab, James W. Nichol ... Read more
Elle
Refreshing . . . I read the book in one fell swoop.
Vancouver Sun
Hypnotic . . . Nichol's elegantly simple and taut prose becomes addictive.
The Globe and Mail
In Midnight Cab, James W. Nichol ... Read more