Sean Dixon is een gevestigde auteur, bekend om zijn werk in zowel toneelstukken als proza. Zijn literaire creaties worden gekenmerkt door diepgaande inzichten in de menselijke psyche en een opmerkelijke vertelstijl. In zijn werken verkent hij vaak complexe relaties en existentiële thema's, waardoor hij kritische erkenning en betrokkenheid van lezers verwierf. Zijn roman, The Girls Who Saw Everything, werd erkend als een van de beste boeken van het jaar.
Set against the backdrop of P.T. Barnum's 1885 circus tour in southwestern Ontario, the story unfolds during a fateful night in St. Thomas. As the show features a variety of performers and the iconic Jumbo the elephant, tragedy strikes when an unscheduled freight train collides with the circus. This incident not only marks the end of Jumbo's life but also highlights the vibrant atmosphere of the circus and the unforgettable characters involved. The narrative captures the excitement and sorrow surrounding this historical event.
The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Woman’s Book Club loves to bring to life tableaux from the books they read. But when they begin to enact the Epic of Gilgamesh, in the early days of the Iraq War, the book begins to enact them instead. And, as it does, the Cabal starts to splinter, driving our narrators out of their own tale.Cross-dressing Aline becomes obsessed with the Baghdad Blogger, Anna with dabbling in prostitution, and Emily with the maker of the Fitzbot, an ambulatory artificial-intelligence experiment. In the centre of it all is Runner Coghill, who is still mourning her twin sister and who brought to the group the ten priceless cuneiform Gilgamesh stones.Underlying it all is the tale of telling the tale, the convolutedness and self-consciousness of our delightful narrators, Jennifer and Danielle, as they reconstruct the tangled story to bring us a novel that is cryptographically charming and eruditely engrossing.‘A sort of Tristram Shandy for the twenty-first century, Sean Dixon’s first novel is an intellectual, sexual, logorrheac, bibliophilic, cryptological, political and archaeological rant of the first order. It’ll change your idea of what “written in stone” means, and itll blow your mind too.’ – Michael Redhill
