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Sunday September 23, 2012 at Queen's Park, 11am - 6pm

Sean Dixon

Event Info: Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent at 11:00 AM

Sean Dixon is a playwright, novelist and actor. His plays have been produced in Canada, the U.S., Australia and the U.K., and three have been collected in AWOL: Three Plays for Theatre SKAM. Sean’s first novel was The Girls Who Saw Everything (The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal in the U.S. and the U.K.), named one of the Best Books of 2007 by Quill & Quire. He is the author of two books for young readers, The Feathered Cloak and The Winter Drey. He occasionally plays banjo with the Toronto glam rock band tomboyfriend. -- Adopt this Author

Books

The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn

In The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn, a rising-stakes vendetta develops between a young rose seller and a building developer, spiralling outward to envelop family, lovers, friends, landlords, wormpickers, window cleaners, Vietnamese gangsters, stand-up bass players and tour-bus guides, involving subway accidents, arson, drainpipes, buried rivers, backhoe wars, stretch limos, ultrasound technicians, poorly fitted windows and an aubergine Saab.  Coach House Books - $20.95 – Fiction