The Bone Cage. by Angie Abdou. B.C. writer Angie Abdou chronicles the rise and fall of swimmer Sadie Jorgensen and wrestler Tom “Digger” Stapleton in her first novel, The Bone Cage. A tale of two athletes, The Bone Cage alternates between the two protagonists’ stories, switching back and forth from chapter to chapter until their paths fatefully cross, changing their individual www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 2 mins. · The Bone Cage captures the physicality, sensuality, and euphoric highs of amateur sport, and the darker, cruel side of sport programs that wear athletes down and spit them out at the end of their bloom. With realism and humour, author Angie Abdou captures athletes on the brink of that transition--the lead-up to that looming redefinition of self--and explores how people deal with the loss of their dream/5(K). · The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou. Set in Calgary, the Bone Cage is about two athletes determined to compete at the Sydney Olympics. Sadie Jorgensen is a year-old long-distance swimmer who trains for six hours a day, works at the university gym for minimum wage and still lives at home. Digger is a competitive wrestler who at 31 is chasing his last chance at his Olympic dream.
Angie Abdou is a fiction writer and teacher with a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Calgary. She has published a short story collection called Anything Boys Can Do () and a novel called The Bone Cage (). Angie Abdou is the author of the short story collection Anything Boys Can Do (), the Canada Reads finalist, The Bone Cage (), The Canterbury Trail () and, most recently, Between ().. Julienne Isaacs: You have been published with a variety of small presses—Thistledown, Brindle Glass, NeWest, and Arsenal Pulp www.doorway.ru-press titles have to work hard to get attention. The Bone Cage was a finalist for the Canada Reads competition sponsored by the CBC. With her novel, Between (), Abdou explores cultural differences in the relationship of two women: a Canadian working mother and her Philipino nanny. The author uses humour and critical self-examination to raise questions about motherhood and careers.
The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou. Angie Abdou’s second book, her first novel, The Bone Cage, is an intimate look at two Olympians preparing for the Olympics in Sydney. There have been countless books written about the “major” sports, but in this novel Abdou takes a chance and focuses on two relatively lesser known sports, wrestling and distance swimming. The Bone Cage captures the physicality, sensuality, and euphoric highs of amateur sport, and the darker, cruel side of sport programs that wear athletes down and spit them out at the end of their bloom. With realism and humour, author Angie Abdou captures athletes on the brink of that transition--the lead-up to that looming redefinition of self--and explores how people deal with the loss of their dream. The novel The Bone Cage, written by Angie Abdou describes the lives of 85 kilo wrestler Digger Stapleton and swimmer Sadie Jorgenson. Sadie and Digger have a goal of being Olympic medalists at Sydney Olympics. Both discover struggles and success from life as an athlete. Sadie struggles with losing her grandmother.
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