Ghosted by Bishop-Stall, Shaughnessy

Ghosted (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781593762957)

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Ghosted by Bishop-Stall, Shaughnessy

Ghosted

$17.95
Ghosted by Bishop-Stall, Shaughnessy

Ghosted

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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Growing up, Mason Dubisee had a hundred future selves: Jedi. Cowboy. Jedi-cowboy. Explorer. Rock star. Sandinista-Gandhi-Hemingway-Indiana-Jones type thing. But at thirty, he must finally face the truth: He's a drug-addled drifter, an aspiring novelist unable to move beyond lists of titles and themes.

Desperate, he takes a job as "The Dogfather"--a downtown hot dog vendor. When a mysterious customer hires him to write a very personal letter, he stumbles into a shadow career, ghostwriting suicide notes for the despondent. The gig helps cover his gambling debts but takes an emotional toll. The trouble is, Mason is hardwired to rescue people, and no one needs rescuing more than the suicidal. Except maybe Willy, the heroin-addicted beauty he's falling for.

What happens when someone wrestling with his own demons immerses himself in other people's tragedies? Quite a lot: A hotdog cart is totaled, a convict sprung, a funeral faked, a head scalped, a horse stolen. As Mason's professional and personal lives become entangled, his sanity is tested--as is the line between suicide and murder.

Ghosted is a gritty literary thriller, a black comedy, a high-stakes poker caper, an urban cowboy adventure, and a love story. Bishop-Stall plunges fearlessly into the perilous terrain of drugs, love, and death in this ambitious debut.

Author: Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
ISBN-10: 159376295X
ISBN-13: 9781593762957
Publisher: Soft Skull
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2010
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.52w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/09/2010
Booklist 10/15/2010 pg. 32
Foreword 08/17/2010
By Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
By Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
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Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall's first book was an account of the year he spent in deep cover, living with the homeless in Toronto's infamous Tent City. Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown was nominated for the 2005 Pearson Writers' Trust of Canada Non-Fiction Prize, the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Trillium Award and the City of Toronto Book Award. The following year, he was awarded the Knowlton Nash Journalism Fellowship at Massey College and also played the role of Jason--a bad-mannered, well-dressed journalist--on CBC-TV's The Newsroom. He is also the author of Ghosted, his first novel, and Hungover, a nonfiction effort to find the cure for a hangover. He currently teaches writing at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies.

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