Gotta Find Me an Angel.Gotta Find Me An Angel Brenda Brooks Raincoast Books 9050 Shaughnessy Street, Vancouver, B. C., Canada V6P 6E5 1551927179 $29.95 www.raincoast.com The debut novel of Brenda Brooks, Gotta Find Me An Angel is the imaginatively engaging story of a 30-something female film-projectionist whose haunting dreams of an old friend, having been dead for about twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. , becomes reality as the young girl's ghost makes regular visits to her. With its distinctively vivid style of authorship, Gotta Find Me An Angel is also the compelling tale of an aspiring writer addicted ad·dict·ed adj. 1. Physiologically or psychologically dependent on a habit-forming substance. 2. Compulsively or habitually involved in a practice or behavior, such as gambling. to late night re-runs of "I, Claudius I, Claudius is a novel by English writer Robert Graves, first published in 1934, that deals sympathetically with the life of the Roman Emperor Claudius and cynically with the history of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and Roman Empire, from Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC ", his unconventional editor, as well as the intimate (albeit despondent de·spon·dent adj. Feeling or expressing despondency; dejected. de·spon  dent·ly adv. )
relationship of a young ghost and the story's narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. and heroine.
Unique, intelligent, colorful, complex, memorable, and altogether
enjoyable, Gotta Find Me An Angel is very strongly recommended reading
that establishes Brenda Brooks (who has previously published two books
of poetry, "Somebody Should Kiss You" and "Blue Light in
the Dash") as a writer to take note of.
Susan Bethany Reviewer |
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