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the red dress
living in small town ontario in the 1970s offers little interest or consolation for charlie knowles teenage son of an angry welfare queen single mother . sometimes his world seems small and dark . as charlie resigns himself to another summer of mowing lawns and skirting the fringes of trouble with his best friend randy a chance encounter one weekend changes the direction of his life.one morning charlie meets serge boorman and soon finds himself befriended by him and his wife selina . the boormans life seems everything charlies is not privileged sophisticated and open to possibility . charlie is smitten by the boormans but his mother is less trusting about their interest in her son.the red dress explores the seductiveness of corruption and the fragility of goodness ; and reveals that even troubled people can have moments of insight . its a story threaded with ambiguities but there is a light cast by one characters extraordinary wholeness . the boormans may be past saving but for charlie there is through a young woman named milly some chance of redemption .
paperback litdistco 2008 isbn13 9780888013361 isbn10 0888013361
book type fi isbn 13 9780888013361 number of pages 153 publisher turnstone press release date 62135769600000