Mad Dog

By Kelly Watt

Book Overview

It's the summer of 1964 and the Supremes are the reigning queens of radio. Sheryl-Anne MacRae dreams of running away from her home on an apple orchard in southwestern Ontario to find her missing mother. But the teenager's plans are put on hold when her uncle and guardian, Fergus, the local pharmacist and an amateur photographer, brings home a handsome young hitchhiker. When Sheryl-Anne meets the guitar-toting Peter Lucas Angelo, she falls in love. But life in Eden Valley is not as idyllic as it seems. As the summer progresses, Peter is pulled deeper into Fergus's dangerous underworld--a world of sex, drugs, pornography and apocalyptic visions. Through the na ve eyes of the ethereal 14-year old Sheryl-Anne, Kelly Watt explores themes of child abuse and sexual deviance, and the secrets, dissociation and denial that allow it to flourish. A Gothic tale told in vivid, often hallucinogenic prose, Mad Dog was a 2001 Globe and Mail notable book and Watt's first novel.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0990376702
• ISBN13: 9780990376705
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Hamilton Stone Editions
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Awstruck

I was awstruck by this rich, powerful and disturbing novel. On the surface, it is a heart-tugging protrayal of coming of age in the sixties. Sheryl Anne MacRae dreams and falls in love in the backdrop of the apple orchards of beautiful Eden Valley. But a bizarre underworld is suspensfully revealed relating to Sheryl Anne's charismatic adopted father. Kelly Watt leads us with the mastery of a great story teller into the truth and horror underneath this seemmingly idyllic scene. And once the horror is faced, the possibility of healing emerges. Kelly Watt is a courageaous writer. Anyone would enjoy this gifted tale about something most of us would rather not look at or even believe is possible.

Awstruck

I was awstruck by this rich, powerful and disturbing novel. Sixteen year old Sheryl Anne MacRae dreams and falls in love in the backdrop of the apple orchards of beautiful Eden Valley in the sixties. But a bizarre underworld is suspensefully revealed involving dangerous sex, drugs and rituals.Kelly Watt leads us with the mastery of a great story teller into the truth and horror underneath this seemingly idyllic scene. And once the horror is faced, the possibility of healing emerges. Kelly Watt is a courageaous writer. Anyone would enjoy this gifted tale about something most of us would rather not look at or even believe is possible.