Acknowledgements

 

Thanks to Miki, Andrei, Gino, Vasile, Peggy, Julius and Valentin for wonderful drunken stories. Thanks to Georgiana for reading first and getting all the accents right. Thanks to Chris Chambers and Tim Elliott for hockey. Thanks to Julia for long discussion over martinis.

I want to especially thank the people at Toronto’s Gibraltar Point artists retreat centre (Susan, Claudia, Robert, everyone) for October 2001, a terrible, turbulent month during which the first draft of this novel was completed. More whiskey, please.

Thanks to Eva Blank for a fine first edit; to Silas White for wanting it and making it better; and to all at Nightwood Editions.

Finally, thanks to Jonathan Bennett. A good friend, though distant. Look Jonathan, it’s a book.