Caught Author: Lisa Moore | Language: English | ISBN:
B00ET7PK0U | Format: EPUB
Caught Description
“Outsanding . . . Surprising and superb . . . A literary adventure story . . . Gripping, detailed, and wholly convincing . . . A supremely human book . . . combining the complexity of the best literary fiction with the page-turning compulsive readability of a thriller.”—National Post
"In the creation of David Slaney, Lisa Moore brings us an unforgettable character, embodying the exuberance and energy of misspent youth. Caught is a propulsive and harrowing read."—Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers
Lisa Moore, “Canada Reads” latest winner and a New Yorker Best Book of the Year author, is known for subtly crafted narratives that are at once sharp and impressionistic. Through an acute ear for dialogue and pared down prose, Moore's characters are startlingly present and instantly persuasive. In her new novel, Caught, Moore’s dangerously appealing new protagonist is unlike any she's imagined before: a modern Billy the Kid, a swaggering folk-hero-in-the making who busts out of prison to embark on one last great heist and win back the woman he loves.
Caught begins with a prison break. Twenty-five-year-old David Slaney, locked up on charges of marijuana possession, has escaped his cell and sprinted to the highway. There, he is picked up by a friend of his sister’s and transported to a strip bar where he survives his first night on the run. But evading the cops isn’t his only objective; Slaney intends to track down his old partner, Hearn, and get back into the drug business. Along the way, Slaney’s fugitive journey across Canada rushes vibrantly to life as he visits an old flame and adopts numerous guises to outpace authorities: hitchhiker, houseguest, student, lover. When finally he reunites with Hearn just steps ahead of a detective hell-bent on making a high-profile arrest, their scheme sends Slaney to Mexico, Colombia, and back again on an epic quest fueled by luck, charm, and unbending conviction.
Moore's most plot-driven novel to date, Caught is a thrillingly charged escapade that thrums with energy and suspense and deftly captures a moment in the late 1970s before the almost folkloric glamour surrounding pot smuggling turned violent. Ripe with bravado, love, ambition, and folly, Caught is about trust and deceit, about the risks we take for the lives we want and the mistakes we can’t outrun.
- File Size: 1163 KB
- Print Length: 338 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0802122124
- Publisher: Grove Press (February 4, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00ET7PK0U
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,160 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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“Caught,” by Lisa Moore, is a stunning novel of piercing psychological depth and realism. It literally took my breath away. This is the first novel I’ve read by Moore, but I can easily see why she won the 2013 Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award, one of Canada’s major literary honors. In conferring that prize on the whole of Moore’s literary work, the jury noted that she was “a writer of startling originality and compelling emotional truth.” In my opinion, that short phrase aptly and succinctly captures this author’s exceptional literary gift.
“Caught” is an insightful novel constructed around the theme of trust, truth, and deception. All the main and secondary characters are regular, everyday type of people portrayed with stark emotional honesty and authenticity; the world they inhabit is one of enigmatic moral ambiguities. We recognize that world as our own and it startles us because we begin to see how dangerous and unpredictable it can be. Anything can happen. Trust is fickle. Control is fiction. Fate is something we eventually must accept…and not let it turn us bitter or make us feel entitled.
The publisher’s blurb on the back of the novel is trying to market this book as some kind of a literary prison-break suspense thriller. All that’s true, but it is not necessarily encouraging the right audience. Sure, the novel is compelling with a pace that pushes the reader through the pages eager to find out what’s going to happen to the likable main character. Sure, the main character is very young, perceptive, crafty, and likable—a modern-day Billy the Kid—but what drives this book is not the action, but the inner motivations behind those actions. It’s not a genre suspense thriller; it’s a profound literary psychological drama….
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