{"product_id":"burridge-unbound-isbn-9780771024887","title":"Burridge Unbound","description":"After surviving a terrifying ordeal at the hands of terrorists in the South Pacific island of Santa Irene, Bill Burridge returns home to Ottawa and casts himself single-mindedly into building a human-rights organization to stand watch over the world’s most troubled areas. Yet, plagued by memories of his incarceration and by the strain of his disintegrating marriage, he is a man struggling to hold his life together. When a democratic revolution stands Santa Irene on a knife-edge between chaos and healing, Burridge reluctantly agrees to serve on a Truth Commission there to investigate past atrocities. Taut, intelligent, and written in the compelling, often sardonic voice of Bill Burridge, Cumyn’s gripping novel immerses us in a shadowy world of betrayals and shifting loyalties, and reveals the intricate, rejuvenating bonds of human relationships. Bill Burridge’s voice is infectious, his story a remarkable one as the novel builds to its climactic final scenes.“\u003ci\u003eBurridge Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e is a story about the fragility of life, life pushed to the edge. It is a brilliant depiction of a man at a precarious crossroads. The novel is breathtaking, almost impossible to put down. Alan Cumyn is a writer of remarkable talent.”\u003cbr\u003e–Alistair MacLeod\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Though it charges forward like a thriller, \u003ci\u003eBurridge Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e also unfolds like a prayer.…If you were dazzled by the film \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Living Dangerously\u003c\/i\u003e, you will admire Cumyn’s finesse at steering you out of Burridge’s domestic drama and into a jungle of intrigue.”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An exceptional achievement.…All I can think of is how chillingly real the core of Mr. Cumyn’s story is.…\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eOttawa Citizen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“A riveting story.…”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“A worthy achievement.…Cumyn is a promising author, worth following. He can write – his convincing portrait of Burridge alone, in all his psychological complexity, is highly original and no small feat.”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In electrifying prose, by turns violent, manic, and deeply sad, Alan Cumyn charts his lurching, rubble-strewn, chaotic, and strangely heroic course.”\u003cbr\u003e–Jury Citation for The Giller Prize by Margaret Atwood, Alistair MacLeod, and Jane Urquhart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBurridge Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling piece of literary fiction. Cumyn has taken an explosive subject and made a fine novel out of it.”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eEdmonton Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Cumyn’s writing is breathtakingly good. . . . He develops Burridge as a darkly humorous Everyman.…The novel is a beautiful and painful slice of reality.…”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eOttawa Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book takes on the dimensions of a thriller, taut, mesmerizing, horrific. It isn’t easy reading, but Cumyn is such a fine writer that he holds us fascinated.”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Cumyn is a writer who engages his readers with provocative ideas and situations from world events.…”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eOttawa X Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“The pain, suffering and chaos of a world turned topsy turvy is superbly mediated through the sardonic voice of Burridge, and the result is a novel which both moves and educates.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e–\u003ci\u003eAmnesty International\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Powerful.…Hard to put down.”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eWindsor Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Cumyn\u003c\/b\u003e’s books include \u003ci\u003eMan of Bone\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), winner of the Ottawa-Carleton Book Award (as it was then known) and a finalist for the Trillium Book Award in 1999; \u003ci\u003eBurridge Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), which won the Ottawa Book Award and was a finalist for The Giller Prize; \u003ci\u003eLosing It\u003c\/i\u003e (2001); and \u003ci\u003eThe Sojourn\u003c\/i\u003e (2003). His children’s book \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSecret Life of Owen Skye\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature (2002).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlan Cumyn lives in Ottawa.","brand":"Emblem Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300699853029,"sku":"NP9780771024887","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771024887.jpg?v=1767723210","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/burridge-unbound-isbn-9780771024887","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}