Leonard Edison's wife has a dark and frightening premonition -- that her husband will die before his next birthday. Leonard, aware of this forecast, responds with the animal instinct of fight-or-flight -- he wings away on an affair with a former student, engages in a series of petty crimes, neglects his dying mother, moves in with his strange, disaffected nephew (who is living off the spoils of a lottery win) and even flirts with the shadowy Toronto Goth world. While he soars towards a new life that might slow the advance of fate, Leonard finds that fate keeps changing its many bird-like appearances: sometimes, the wings of darkness are hard and audible; sometimes, they are obscured by bright but fatal light.
- ISBN10 1550717022
- ISBN13 9781550717020
- Publish Date 1 September 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Guernica Editions,Canada
- Format Paperback
- Pages 362
- Language English