Jean wouldn t be able stand it if something unfortunate were to befall her friends that s why decides to kill them herself, before anything else can harm them. Bad Marie meets Arsenic and Old Lace in this darkly humorous story of a woman whose overpowering love for her friends moves her to murder each and every one of them. Practical Jean, the U.S. debut of acclaimed Canadian author Trevor Cole, is a biting and black comedy of middle-class mores gone murderously wrong that combines diamond-cut social satire with thoughtful ...
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Jean wouldn t be able stand it if something unfortunate were to befall her friends that s why decides to kill them herself, before anything else can harm them. Bad Marie meets Arsenic and Old Lace in this darkly humorous story of a woman whose overpowering love for her friends moves her to murder each and every one of them. Practical Jean, the U.S. debut of acclaimed Canadian author Trevor Cole, is a biting and black comedy of middle-class mores gone murderously wrong that combines diamond-cut social satire with thoughtful contemplations of friendship (Globe and Mail). A deliciously dark satire with roots that spread from Jonathan Swift s A Modest Proposal to Tim Burton s Edward Scissorhands, Cole s Practical Jean is a razor s edge dissection of relationships, faithfulness, and homicide. After all, what are friends for? "
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0771023251. 8vo 8"-9" tall; 304 pages; 2010 McClelland & Stewart. HC/DJ 1st printing. Snugly bound and very neat in uniformly bright, unclipped jacket. Trace shelf tap to boards at corner tips and a whisper of shelf evidence to jacket edges. VG++/VG++
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