Frankie Styne & the Silver Man

Praise for Frankie Styne and the Silver Man "Exquisite ...[Page's] favored themes are here--the stark dichotomies of life, the power of language, the way the social system tries and fails to help people, and how saving grace can come from unseen places ... A fierce writer; her relentless imagination and pure writing skills bring a broken, nightmare world fully to life."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "Page draws on ... pulp material -- monsters; aliens; an unhappy, childless marriage -- and takes her characters to equally dark places. What's different is [that] Page's monsters display a more complex relationship between inner and outer ugliness and find redemption in responsibility."--The Globe & Mail "Frankie Styne offers a terrific showcase of Page's singular style (with its attractive high-low mixture of genres), quirky unexpected invention, and attention to the nuances of psychology. Mere words on a page, her creations linger in the mind long after the reading's done."--Vancouver Sun "Frankie Styne and the Silver Man is a fantastic novel. Character driven, claustrophobic, and deeply weird, it has a haunting, discomfiting quality that lingers with a reader."--Toronto Star "[Kathy Page's] writing is beautifully crafted ... pulling her readers into her world. Her astute attention to detail makes for good reading."--The Winnipeg Free Press "Strange and deeply haunting ... Page's prose is cold, crystalline terror ... Frankie Styne and the Silver Man seems unknowable at first, until it builds to a thankfully redemptive climax."--National Post "This book has the trappings of great pulp...Page's prose is vivid and alive, with nary a scrap of throwaway writing to be found."--Publishers Weekly "An amazing and unique read from beginning to end, Frankie Styne & the Silver Man is a deftly crafted work of truly memorable literary fiction that is especially recommended for community and academic library Contemporary Fiction collections."--Midwest Book Review "Page's imaginative powers are electric. She has the ability to analyze the often nightmarish qualities of the human psyche and as a result, Frankie Styne is a taut examination of the complex emotional ties that bind, the methods we employ to distance ourselves, and our ambiguous powers of imagination. She is at once poignant and provocative, stomach-churningly distasteful and yet compulsively readable."--Time Out UK "Frankie Styne and the Silver Man resists being put down for the night... I read on, captivated and creeped-out. But this being Kathy Page, I always trusted I was heading away from a nightmare, towards a happier place. This is Felicia's Journey, with a big dollop of hope."--Caroline Adderson, prize-winning author of Ellen in Pieces "This is the very best book that I've read in ages, and if I read another half as good in the next few months, that will constitute an extraordinary literary year."--Kerry Clare, Pickle Me This "Fresh and engaging. Her writing is crisp and her insights into human behavior are acute."--Lynne Van Luven, Monday Magazine "Great story. Great writing, too. [Frankie Styne renders] down the monstrous, gently fold the abnormal into an embrace and make it human ... Fantastic!"--Helen Heffernan