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1) Radiant city
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gary Burns, Canada's king of surreal comedy, joins journalist Jim Brown on an outing to the 'burbs. Venturing through a toybox of cultural references, from Jane Jacobs to The Sopranos, the two create a provocative reflection on why we live the way we do.
A Canadian family struggles with existential despair, exacerbated by the drabness of their suburban locale.
Author
Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Alex Morrow is not new to the police force--or to crime--but there is nothing familiar about the call she has just received. On a still night in a quiet suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, three armed men have slipped from a van into a house, demanding a man who is not, and has never been, inside the front door. In the confusion that ensues, one family member is shot and another kidnapped, the assailants demanding an impossible ransom. Is this the amateur...
Author
Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
When notorious millionaire banker Lars Anderson hangs himself from the old oak tree in front of his Kent mansion his death attracts no sympathy. One less shark is little loss to a world nursing a financial hangover. But the legacy of a life time of self-serving is widespread, the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family. He leaves behind two deeply damaged children and a broken wife. Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow,...