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Why Men Lie (2012)

by Linden MacIntyre(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0307360865 (ISBN13: 9780307360861)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Random House Canada

series

The Cape Breton Trilogy

review 1: Een heel ontspannend boek, geschreven vanuit het standpunt van een vrouw van 50 met een bewogen leven. In haar nieuwste relatie en in haar verleden heeft ze vaak te maken gehad met mannen die liegen of dingen verzwijgen... de vraag is, waarom doen ze dat? Omdat ze zich schuldig voelen? Omdat ze haar willen sparen? Of om andere redenen...? In elk geval, hoe graag ze het ook zou willen, het laat haar niet koud.
review 2: The 3rd book in the Cape Breton trilogy(The long stretch, The bishop's man, Why men lie), the story of the closely connected cousins & friends originating in the Long Stretch, continues seen through the eyes of Effie McAskill-Gillis. After a brief marriage to John Gillis whom she left after 2 years for his cousin Sextus, whom in turn she leaves ... morebecause of his womanizing, she has a brief fling, then along period without men, until she runs into JC Campbell, a TV journalist, in the subway in Toronto where she moved years ago & works as a professor at the University of Toronto in Celtic studies. They have a choppy love affair, interrupted by JC's near total dedication to the case of Sam, a Canadian awaiting execution in Texas for a murder committed years previously. This necessitates his flying to Texas repeatedly, at times when Effie is not emotionally prepared to accept it. She is given a manuscript written by Sextus, detailing the ins & outs of the family history, which is stolen by Paul, a man she meets casually who is obsessed with her, but JC recovers it. He decides to go back to Cape Breton to write his version of the events, but when in the old family home, his granddaughter persuades 2 friends looking for money to buy drugs, that he is an easy target-they break in & attempt to steal his laptop, which he resists, and gets killed. Effie is devastated, but comes to terms with it, with the help of her brother Duncan(the bishop's man)- a vacillating RC priest who had been working in a homeless shelter in TO. Again, a story pervaded by alcohol, violence, and at times near incestuous family relations, but with finely drawn characters. less

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