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    The City Man
    The City Man
    The City Man
    Audiobook2 hours

    The City Man

    Written by Howard Akler

    Narrated by Braden Wright

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    About this audiobook

    Nominated for a Commonwealth Writers Prize, a Toronto Book Award and an Amazon.ca First Novel Award.

    March 6, 1934. Hundreds gather outside City Hall to celebrate the Toronto Centenary. In the crowd, pickpocket Mona Kantor and her partner, Chesler, are “in the tip,” finding easy pickings among the jostling masses. Eli Morenz, city man for the Daily Star, is covering the festivities and uncovering the pickpocket racket working the scene. A surreptitious photo and some keen research lead him to an underworld dive in Kensington Market where Toronto’s pickpockets converge – and to Mona.

    Moving from a tense newsroom on King Street to the frenetic grift at Union Station, The City Man is a romance that begins in an instant and careens towards peril. Akler’s prose is as deft as a thief’s fingers, as precise and powerful as a heavyweight’s punch. Packed with enchanting, arcane period slang and comparable in its evocation of a lost Toronto to Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion, this is a novel of exceptional grace, excitement and beauty.

    Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country’s greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherECW Press
    Release dateDec 9, 2019
    ISBN9781773055398
    The City Man
    Author

    Howard Akler

    Howard Akler was born in Toronto in 1969. He is the co?author (with Sarah B. Hood) of Toronto: The Unknown City (Arsenal Pulp, 2003).

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