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Montreal author Kevin Lambert channels Jean Genet in a scalding novel about sex and class warfare

August 24, 2022August 24, 2022
by Steven Beattie

Lambert uses the structure of a classical Greek tragedy to tell the story of a strike at a sawmill and the amoral, charismatic figure caught up in it.

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