The Man Game
The Man Game
Author: Lee Henderson
Desc: On a recent Vancouver Sunday afternoon a young man stumbles upon a secret sport invented more than a century before at the birth of his city. Thus begins The Man Game Lee Henderson’s epic tale of loved requited and not that crosses the contemporary and historical in an extravagant anarchistic retelling of the early days of a pioneer town on the edge of the known world. In 1886 out of the smouldering ashes of the great fire that destroyed much of the city Molly Erwagen—former vaudeville performer—arrives from Toronto with her beloved husband Samuel to start a new life. Meanwhile Litz and Pisk two lumberjacks exiled after the fire and blamed for having started it are trying to clear their names. Before long they’ve teamed up with Molly to invent a new sport that will change the course of that fledgling city’s history.