The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke
Hayward, Steven From a stunning new writer, a rich, beautifully textured novel of Canada in the thirties, of the passions of youth, and of the looming black shadow of the Nazis' swastika, that conjures up the glorious humanity and humour of St. Urbain's Horseman and the storytelling imagination of Fifth Business. It is a summer afternoon in 1933 when our hero, Lucio Burke, knocks a great bird out of the Toronto sky with a single, perfect throw. Thus it is tha...