The antagonist

ISBN: 9781770890428
ISBN: 1770890424
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource (381 p.)
Publisher: Toronto : House of Anansi Press, 2011.

Coady, Lynn 1970- (Author).

Summary: Against his will and his nature, the hulking Gordon Rankin ("Rank") is cast as an enforcer, a goon--by his classmates, his hockey coaches, and especially his own "tiny,angry" father, Gordon Senior. Rank gamely lives up to his role--until tragedy strikes, using Rank as its blunt instrument. Escaping the only way he can, Rank disappears. But almost twenty years later he discovers that an old, trusted friend--the only person to whom he has ever confessed his sins--has published a novel mirroring Rank's life. The betrayal cuts to the deepest heart of him, and Rank will...