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Going Down Swinging

Name: Going Down Swinging
Brand: Random House of Canada : Vintage Canada
SKU: 9780679310730-PRUSDTR-US
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Edition: CA - Paperback / softback

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English • Age Adult - Adult

336 pages • 5.5 x 8.0 x 0.66 in

Approx. weight: 0.89 lb

Publication date: 10 Nov,2000

Barcode: 9780679310730 • Random House of Canada : Vintage Canada

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Fiction: general and literary
Family life fiction
Humorous fiction

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By: Billie Livingston

A remarkable debut novel and bittersweet tale of the unflinching love and devotion between a mother and daughter.

Razor sharp and darkly funny, Going Down Swinging chronicles two years in the life of the Hoffmans. Eilleen Hoffman has just told Danny, her con-artist lover and father of her youngest daughter Grace, to get out—for good. Once a teacher, Eilleen lived a middle-class life, but her taste in men coupled with a predilection for pills and booze has brought her down. Desperate to prevent her family from sinking deeper into poverty, Eilleen reluctantly goes on welfare.

Eventually she turns to the only friends she has left, hustlers and hookers, to learn how a woman makes fast money, no investment necessary. With Eilleen on welfare and her older daughter Charlotte a teenaged runaway, child welfare authorities descend on the Hoffmans. As Eilleen trails through several attempts at drying out, the well-intentioned Children's Protection Society finally intervenes to apprehend Grace. With the threat of prolonged separation now a stark reality, Eilleen and Grace must rally to confront their demons with grit, determination and humour.

Unblinkingly observed and brilliantly written, Going Down Swinging is about the powerful bond between mother and child. And with her skilful narrative interplay, Billie Livingston illustrates poignantly how the truth of our stories lies not so much in the black and white, as it does in the grey.