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Books -> The Joining of Dingo Radish
Release Date: April 29, 2005
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ISBN: 1-894283-55-4
5 1/2"x8 1/2" Trade Paper with French flaps 240pp

Genre: Fiction/Literary

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An accomplished thief and a skilled con man, Dingo Radish is a good man who does bad things. The eldest of three children born to an alcoholic father and an emotionally unstable mother, Dingo and his family are social outcasts in the town of Bennington Falls, Saskatchewan. After the deaths of his parents, Dingo becomes responsible for his mentally handicapped brother and promiscuous sister.

But going straight turns out to be harder than he’d hoped. In a desperate attempt to provide for his family, Dingo pulls one last heist: he steals a semi-trailer loaded with a genetically modified herbicide and sells it to his crooked boss. But the herbicide manufacturer is out to kill more than weeds, and Dingo stumbles into a web of greed and genetic engineering that leads to the kidnapping of his mentally challenged brother.

Set in the heart of rural Saskatchewan, The Joining of Dingo Radish is the story of one man willing to do whatever it takes to provide for those he loves.

 

SPECIALIST APPEAL:

- Topics in this novel include genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the Genome Project (mapping of human DNA), and the practice of using GMOs in agriculture.

- The novel deftly explores the family dynamics of living with a mentally challenged sibling.

 

ARTWORK

 

Artwork by Leigh Stang

For more information contact Leigh at:

dstang@yourlink.ca

 
   
         
   
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