{"product_id":"9781554888511","title":"The Silence on the Shore","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1962, \u003ci\u003eThe Silence on the Shore\u003c\/i\u003e is considered by many critics to be Hugh Garner’s best, most ambitious novel. Truly, in the person of Grace Hill, the landlady of the Toronto rooming house where most of the book’s events take place, Garner has created a fictional character never to be forgotten. Grace is a middle-aged snoop and an overweight nudist whose sexual release comes from watching wrestling matches at a hockey arena that is a thinly disguised Maple Leaf Gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eAround Grace orbit her various boarders: alcoholic Gordon Lightfoot; Walter Fowler, an aspiring writer whose marriage has just broken up; Aline Garfield, a fundamentalist Christian grappling with various urges and torments; a Polish refugee woman; and a colourful cast of others whose lives intersect in drama that arises from arbitrary or coincidental encounters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAccording to scholar John Moss, the book is “the best realistic novel of Canadian city life yet to be written.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dundurn Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128512823536,"sku":"9781554888511","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554888511_p0.jpg?v=1763786401","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554888511","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}