Burridge Unbound
After surviving a terrifying ordeal at the hands of terrorists in the South Pacific island of Santa Irene, Bill Burridge returns home to Ottawa and casts himself single-mindedly into building a human-rights organization to stand watch over the world’s most troubled areas. Yet, plagued by memories of his incarceration and by the strain of his disintegrating marriage, he is a man struggling to hold his life together. When a democratic revolution stands Santa Irene on a knife-edge between chaos and healing, Burridge reluctantly agrees to serve on a Truth Commission there to investigate past atrocities. Taut, intelligent, and written in the compelling, often sardonic voice of Bill Burridge, Cumyn’s gripping novel immerses us in a shadowy world of betrayals and…
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March 26, 2002Alan Cumyn’s two most recent books are Burridge Unbound (2000), which won the Ottawa-Carleton Book Award, and which was a finalist for The Giller Prize; and Man of Bone (1998), which also won the Ottawa-Carleton Book Award, and was a finalist for the prestigious Trillium Award in 1999. He lives in Ottawa.