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Winner, Ottawa-Carleton Book AwardShortlisted, Trillium AwardMan of Bone has a thriller''s taste for blood, but Alan Cumyn delivers something more: a heart-wrenching portrait of an ordinary Canadian jerked into third-world terrorism. Bill Burridge, his wife and their little son have moved to the island paradise of Santa Irene on Bill''s first diplomatic posting. At the short-staffed embassy, he is thrown, almost unbriefed, into work he scarcely understands. After less than two weeks, while driving alone on a safe highway to an afternoon of badminton in the country, he is snatched by revolutionaries. Against his will, Burridge turns out under torture to be a man of bone who can''t give up and die. His ignorance and low status make him useless to his captors, but they can''t simply let him go. They continue to torture him until, distracted by other battles, they abandon him and his keeper in a mountain village. Suddenly one day helicopters rake the village with gunfire, and

Man of Bone

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      Publisher Goose Lane Editions
      Published 1 January 2000
      ISBN-13 9780864922908
      978-0864922908
      ISBN-10 864922906

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      Book Synopsis
      Winner, Ottawa-Carleton Book AwardShortlisted, Trillium AwardMan of Bone has a thriller''s taste for blood, but Alan Cumyn delivers something more: a heart-wrenching portrait of an ordinary Canadian jerked into third-world terrorism. Bill Burridge, his wife and their little son have moved to the island paradise of Santa Irene on Bill''s first diplomatic posting. At the short-staffed embassy, he is thrown, almost unbriefed, into work he scarcely understands. After less than two weeks, while driving alone on a safe highway to an afternoon of badminton in the country, he is snatched by revolutionaries. Against his will, Burridge turns out under torture to be a man of bone who can''t give up and die. His ignorance and low status make him useless to his captors, but they can''t simply let him go. They continue to torture him until, distracted by other battles, they abandon him and his keeper in a mountain village. Suddenly one day helicopters rake the village with gunfire, and

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