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ISBN: 1951092600

ISBN13: 9781951092603

Sunday's Child

(Book #1 in the Geoffrey Chadwick Series)

By Philip Payne

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A Geoffry Chadwick Misadventure, Book 1 - Lawyer Geoffry Chadwick is 50, Canadian, single, gay and, after a brief struggle with a hustler who tries to shake him down, a murderer. Herein lies the device for this macabre, funny, first novel. Although Geoffry must dispose of the body - which he does by dropping off sections of it around town at night - the trauma of the murder affords him the opportunity to reminisce and ruminate: on the recent termination of his affair with a history teacher; on the not-so-recent deaths of his wife and daughter; on the alcoholism of his mother; on growing old; on being gay. The visit of a nephew and the New Year's festivities only serve to intensify his thoughts. Although Chadwick is abrasively disdainful early on, he is fascinating when he loosens up. Phillips keeps the reader hopping with throwaway quotations from Donne and scatological references and puns.

First published in 1981, and a Books in Canada First Novel nominee, this new edition contains a foreword by Alexander Inglis.

"Edward Phillips has produced something unique in literary history - a comic thriller about gays, set in Westmount. I read it with mounting appreciation and laughter. A highly promising debut." - Robert Fulford

"A witty, wonderfully poised, poignant, self-pitiless book." - Montreal Gazette

"A masterful and original novel." - The Globe and Mail

"The feelings run deep and it speaks sensibly, amusingly, and passionately." - Marian Engel

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1163301728

ISBN13:9781163301722

Release Date:September 2010

Publisher:Kessinger Publishing

Length:476 Pages

Weight:1.39 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Rated 5 stars
Have you ever had one of those days...

By Thriftbooks.com User, January 20, 2003

Canadian author Edward O. Phillip's "Sunday" series, featuring 50-something gay lawyer Geoffrey Chadwick, begins with this darkly humorous suspense tale: Chadwick, alone on New Year's Eve and somewhat depressed about breaking up with his lover, picks up a young hustler and brings him home. When the man tries to rob him, Chadwick fights back, the hustler winds up dead - and Chadwick finds himself in a rather precarious situation...

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Rated 4 stars
SUNDAY'S CHILD

By Thriftbooks.com User, December 21, 2000

SINCE THE OTHER REVIEW PRINTED ABOUT THIS BOOKS IS SO VERY NEGATIVE, I THOUGHT I WOULD ADD MY TWO CENTS. THIS IS REALLY A FINE NOVEL. THE QUOTES ON THE JACKET ARE TRUE: IT IS ENTERTAINING AND WELL WRITTEN. IT HAS A VERY POSITIVE GAY CHARACTER INVOLVED IN A VERY UNUSUAL SITUATION -- DISPOSING OF THE REMAINS OF A BLACKMAILING STREET HUSTLER HE'S KILLED AND DISMEMBERED. HE'S POSITIVE BECAUSE HE SHOWS STRENGTH IN ADVERSITY,...

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