The Good Body: A Novel

By Bill Gaston

Book Overview

The Good Body is a triumphant blend of mordant humour and heartbreak. It tells the comic and poignant story of a retired pro-hockey ruffian named Bobby Bonaduce who is stubbornly ignoring a disease -... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060394110
• ISBN13: 9780060394110
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.9" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

What a gem!

It's rare in these busy times to stumble upon a novel worthy of the glorious yet exhausting all-night read. But within the first few pages of "The Good Body," I knew that a good night's sleep was not in the cards. It's 5AM in the morning; my work day is doomed, yet my mind still reels from the poetic beauty and honesty that is this novel. Can a mere book still move a jaded reader to tears? The answer, thanks to Lewis Nordan's "Sharpshooter Blues", Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections," and now Bill Gaston's "The Good Body," is a resounding YES! What a triumph!