num_pages: 328
description: Andrew Day embarks on a bicycle trip from Halifax to Kingston his childhood home. As he goes the dual narratives of Andrews life emerge: the slow painful death of his father and the disappearance of Betty who may be lost to him forever. He contemplates too the nature of desire. En route Andrew sloughs off his fears material goods and attachments. In episodes of intensifying violence he leaves the highway and rides the back roads under the cover of night. By the time he arrives home an epiphany greets him. Darryl Whetter writes with compelling intensity of athleticism and degeneration isolation and community the weight of desire and the joy and anguish present in all things.
language: English
title: The Push & the Pull
publisher: Goose Lane Editions