Caught
CBC Books | Posted: April 10, 2017 1:53 PM | Last Updated: July 21, 2022
Lisa Moore
Caught is set in 1978 and follows 25-year-old David Slaney, a young man who was caught smuggling drugs to Newfoundland. After spending five years in prison, he breaks out in order to do one last drug run in a futile attempt to shake off his past and set himself up for life. Slaney embarks on a cross-country adventure filled with fascinating characters and close calls. (From House of Anansi Press)
Caught was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2013 and was made into a miniseries for CBC Television.
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From the book
For an instant the perfect oval of hard light had contained him like the shell of an egg and then he'd gone animal numb and cringing, a counterintuitive move, the prison psychotherapist might have said, if they were back in her office discussing the break -- she talked slips and displacement, sublimation and counter-intuition, and allowed for an inner mechanism he could not see or touch but had to account for -- then the oval slid him back into darkness and he charged up the hill again.
From Caught by Lisa Moore ©2013. Published by House of Anansi Press.