![]() ![]() The journal includes troubling entries and newspaper clippings about animal killings and arsons. ![]() “The feel of the soft, worn leather makes me cringe - feels too much like skin,” Duncan, the narrator, says. One day, Duncan idly picks from a stack of books one with a brown leather cover with no title or writing on the spine. ( See also Toronto Subway.) The subterranean storage facility at the Bay Street subway station holds an odd assortment of items left behind on buses, subways and streetcars. ![]() His father works the overnight shift at a printing plant.ĭuncan reports daily to a dead-end summer job deep beneath the city in the lost and found office of the Toronto Transit Commission. His mother works part-time at Walmart while studying at community college. He describes Acceleration as “‘What I Did on my Summer Vacation’ meets Silence of the Lambs.” Plot Synopsisĭuncan lives in an apartment complex known as the Jungle, on the edge of an urban industrial wasteland in Toronto. He has worked in libraries, bookstores, a bookbinding factory and a lost and found office. He grew up in a working-class neighbourhood similar to the one described in Acceleration. McNamee was born and raised in Toronto before moving to Vancouver. ![]() The publicity for Graham McNamee’s fourth book included a biography written in the terse style of an entry in a police blotter. ![]()
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