The best thing for you
Canada (romans), Littérature générale (romans), Oeuvres littéraires (romans)
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
In three novellas, the author reveals the potential for darkness that lurks behind even the most perfect-seeming veneer. In "No Fun," a middle-class family in present-day Vancouver is thrown into turmoil when their teenage son is charged in connection with… the beating of a disabled man. In "The Goldberg Metronome," a young couple discovers an antique metronome taped up and hidden under a sink in their new apartment. And in "The Best Thing for You", set in wartime 1940s Vancouver, a housewife in her twenties plots and carries out her husband's murder with sang-froid, with the help of her lover, a young grocery-store clerk. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2004.