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Title Statement | Bystander / Mike Steeves. |
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Author | Steeves, Mike, 1978- |
Publication | ©2022Toronto: Book Hug press,[2022]. |
Extent of Item | 253 pages |
ISBN | 9781771667104 (pbk.) 1771667109 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 4154425 |
Summary | I have never been faced with a moral crisis, let alone a matter of life or death." Peter Simons doesn't spend much time at home in his bachelor apartment. Thanks to his job at a multinational company, he is often flying around the world, enjoying a life of luxurious solitude in five star hotels. So when he returns after being away for nine months and notices a strange smell coming from his neighbour's apartment, he initially tries not to get involved, but when a body is discovered Peter's carefully cultivated detachment begins to crumble. And when new neighbours move into the vacant apartment he gets caught up in a petty dispute that will bring him to the brink of moral ruin. Bystander is a pitiless, bold work of intense psychological realism narrated by a professionally successful but socially bankrupt anti-hero who expects global connection and local anonymity. It excoriates the contingency of contemporary morality, and, at a time of growing isolation, forces the reader to examine what it means to be a good neighbour. |
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By Topic | Neighbors--Fiction |
Apartments--Fiction | |
Businessmen--Fiction | |
By Genre | Psychological fiction |