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Original Title:	Smoke
ISBN:	0143016245 (ISBN13: 9780143016243)
Edition Language:	English

Smoke

Elizabeth Ruth

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.48 | 86 Users | 9 Reviews

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In the 1950s, in the Ontario tobacco-growing community of Smoke, a young boy on the verge of manhood is scarred forever. A night out with his buddies, too much booze and a lit cigarette, and Buster McFiddie’s life will never be the same. Through the process of healing, one man’s voice speaks to him, softly, to ease his pain, spinning yarns of The Purple Gang, the notorious Detroit mob. It is the voice of John Gray, the town doctor, and soon it’s clear that telling these tales means as much to Doc as hearing them means to Buster.

In an era of conformity, a disfigured boy tries to move his life forward, and an old man grapples desperately with his past: the convergence of two lives on the cusp will change each of them, and the small-town world that binds them, in ways they could not have imagined.

Elizabeth Ruth's second novel is a tour de force: a potent, richly inventive story of identity and transformation, of reconciliation between the way you are seen, and the truth of who you really are.

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Title	:	Smoke
Author	:	Elizabeth Ruth
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	August 30th 2005 by Penguin Canada
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Adult Fiction

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Ratings: 3.48 From 86 Users | 9 Reviews

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Exellent! particularly the end, read it all, don't cheat

Amazing! Its possible I was seduced by the familiarity of places like Tillsonburg and Norwich. Not likely I found much poetry in the tobacco farms. It might have been the 50s I liked so much. No, Smoke was well put together; it was engaging from the first page. The author created believable characters for whom sympathy was effortless. The writing was pretty but neither excessive nor intrusive. Elizabeth Ruth had something to say and she made me want to listen: what you see is not always what you

To be completely honest I read this book only grudgingly at first. I had to fill in a book bingo square and this one fit the bill.It soon won me over. The characters are full and complicated and soon I was very interested in the lives of these small town dwellers. The style of the book reminds me of something familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on it...a little The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence maybe?? Or at least how I remember it from my high-school days...Overall a great book.

Wow! I loved this book. I live in the area, so I understood exactly where the locations were that Ruth was referring too. The end...wow!!

Elizabeth Ruth is a writer, creative writing instructor and mother living in Toronto, Canada. Her first novel, Ten Good Seconds of Silence was a finalist for the Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize, the Amazon.ca Best First Novel Award and the City of Toronto Book Award. Her critically acclaimed second novel, Smoke, was chosen for the One Book One Community program and named as a top-ten book

I quite enjoyed this book. There was enough going on that it kept me entertained, but not too much so that it was difficult to keep track. I also found it really cool to read a book that takes place in the county I live in.My only complaint is that the identity of one of the characters/storylines is not revealed, and I'm really curious about who it was.