When I was eleven, and Jay was ten, we joined the Wolf Cubs.
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The Ravine
by Paul Quarrington
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One morning in Don Mills, Phil and his brother Jay agree to let their friend Norman Kitchen tag along on an adventure down into a ravine — and what happens there at the hands of two pitiless teenagers changes all their lives forever. Years later the horrifying details are still unclear, smothered in layers of deliberate forgetting.
Phil’s “ravine” is his attempt to make sense of things, to try to understand how everything went so wrong just as it seemed to be going so right. But The Ravine is also a Paul Quarrington novel, meaning that it’s hilarious and ingenious, quietly working its magic until the reader is at once heartbroken and hopeful. A darkly funny story about loss and redemption, The Ravine is also about how stories are made — how they can pull us out of disasters that seem too much for anyone to bear — and about how, sometimes, what we need to forgive ourselves for is not what we think it is at all.
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canadian fiction, fiction, authors, divorced fathers, families, guilt, Friendship, Psychological fiction, Brothers, Fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, humorous, generalPlaces
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Table of Contents
Part One.
The Ravine
Page 5
1.
The Ravine
Page 7
2.
The Memory
Page 25
3.
The Television
Page 29
4.
The Brother
Page 41
5.
Birds of a Feather
Page 47
6.
The Bullet and the Cross
Page 61
7.
The Situation
Page 73
8.
The Ex
Page 81
Part Two.
Theatre and Television
Page 91
9.
Act Two, Scene One
Page 93
10.
Van Der Glick
Page 107
11.
What Happened, Inexactly
Page 117
12.
Kunstlerroman
Page 141
13.
Career Moves
Page 151
Part Three.
The Twilight Zone
Page 163
14.
The Date
Page 165
15.
All Souls' Night
Page 181
16.
The Creative Process
Page 197
17.
The Plate
Page 209
18.
The Window
Page 223
Part Four.
The Search for Norman Kitchen
Page 235
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