In the City of Pigs
Anndee Newson
, Marilyn Stanley
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Penny Gilman
, Jude Castillo
, Liz Moreau
, Linda Leitch
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Sarah Schwartz
, Andrea Pole
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Dawn Macdonald
, Shannon Holmes
, LJ Law
, Deb Philippon
, Huguette Lemieux
, Susan Jang
, Rose Hately
, Mathew Webb
, Deana Bueley
, Barry Kazimer
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Natasa Ilic
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Andy Holmes
, Debbie Rodgers
, Melissa Kohlman
, Tyler Webb
, Duncan Halliday
, Ed Gilman
, Sandra Furlotte
, Chelsey Boley
, Debra Fisher
, Andrea Gillespie
, Holly Elisabeth
, Heather Ritz
, Janet Meisner
, Susan Baues
, Sharon Bird
, Tina May
, Randi Ann Doll
, Maggie Keating
, Karen Kendrick
, Becky Bridger
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Darlene Foster
, robin Harrison
, Karen Nordrum
, Gwynn Scheltema
, C. Ray
, Kate Rutter
, Ken Gilmour
, Charles Leblanc
, Paula Adam
, Patricia Johnson
, Maria Mclean
, Heather Sibley
, Robert Hykawy
, Joanne Epp
, Noelle Walsh
, Connie Braun
, Nancy Daoust
, Alex Henderson
, Vicki Bedford
, Hoda Montazeri
editor@49thShelf.com
A failed musician obsessed with avant-garde art enters a shadowy world where bohemian excess meets the avaricious interests of a real estate cabal.
Alexander Otkazov is finished with Montreal. Having wasted his youth on the love of art, he’s ready for a life of anonymous condo towers and profitable boredom. But when he moves to Toronto, he is forced into a monkish existence by the unforgiving pressures of the city — until he stumbles across a story about an ambitious experimental music collective that could be his ticket to a better job and a better life.
Desperate to prove himself as a journalist, Alexander chases answers that take him from Forest Hill mansions to the bottom of Halifax Harbour, moving ever deeper into a shadowy world of amorphous real estate deals, creative megalomania, and finance capitalism, where avant-garde art is simply another mask for big money. In order to unravel the threads tying everything he loves to everything he hates, he will have to confront his own most sordid desires and the lengths he is willing to go to achieve his dreams of an easy life.
