Daddy Lenin
Subtitle: and other stories
By: Guy Vanderhaeghe
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780771099144; 9780771099151
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Interpersonal relations; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Among these nine stories: A teenage boy breaks out of the strict confines of his family, his bid for independence leads him in over his head. He learns about life in short order and there is no turning back. An actor's penchant for hiding behind a role, on and off stage, is tested to the limits and what he comes to discover finally places him face to face with the truth. With his mother hospitalized for a nervous condition and his father away on long work stints, a boy is sent to another family for his meals. His gradually building relationship with a teenage daughter who has been left handicapped from Polio opens unexpected doors to the world. In the title story, a middle-aged man meets his former adviser at university, a charismatic and domineering professor dubbed Daddy Lenin. As their tense reunion progresses, secrets from the past painfully revise remembered events and threaten to topple the scaffolding of a marriage.
Notes: Issued also in electronic format.

Text in English.
Table of contents: title: The Jimi Hendrix Experience --; title: Tick tock --; title: Koenig & Company --; title: 1957 Chevy Bel Air --; title: Live large --; title: Where the boys were --; title: Anything --; title: Counsellor Sally brings me to the tunnel --; title: Daddy Lenin.