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    The Glass Harmonica: A Novel

    By Russell Wangersky

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    2010 BMO Winterset Award — Winner

    When retiree Keith O’Reilly witnesses the murder of his neighbour by a pizza delivery man one night during a snowstorm, a unique series of stories begins to unfold.

    As the narrative seamlessly moves from neighbour to neighbour, house to house, the reader begins to understand, not only the circumstances that led to the murder, but the private secrets and personal struggles of many of the McKay Street residents.

    Travelling through the changing viewpoints of a more than a dozen of people in a small residential neighbourhood in St. John’s, Newfoundland, The Glass Harmonica looks at the way common memories and shared experiences bend and warp as individuals recall the events of their lives, and how these distortions influence both the character’s and the reader’s understanding of the truth.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateSep 10, 2012
    ISBN9780887628177
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    The Glass Harmonica: A Novel
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    Russell Wangersky

    Russell Wangersky is a writer, editor and columnist from St. John’s, Newfoundland. His books have won, or been shortlisted for, numerous Canadian literary prizes.

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    • 5/5
      (Literary fiction, Atlantic Canadian) Set in St. John’s Newfoundland where the author lives and works as editor and columnist for The Telegram, The Glass Harmonica is the story of a neighbourhood. In the present, a man witnesses his neighbour shot and killed by a pizza delivery person, but the back story is woven in pieces by various neighbours, back and forth over the course of 40 years. Wangersky has been called a craftsman storyteller. I concur.This book won 2010 BMO Winterset Award for the outstanding literary work in any genre by a Newfoundlander or Labradorian.Read this if: you’ve ever walked down your street and wondered what goes on behind closed doors4½ stars