A Game to Play on the Tracks

by Lorna Jackson

Follows a series of characters, including Arden, an intellectual singer stuck in the West Coast bar scene whose tale ends with inevitable tragedy; her husband, Nichol, who drifts through a series of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889842310
• ISBN13: 9780889842311
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A sophisticated, albeit moody, reflection

A Game To Play On The Tracks by Lorna Jackson begins with Arden, a mother who has some very serious problems with alcohol and self-absorption. Arden's struggle to resume her life of country music at the British Columbia bar scene but is faltering. Her husband has a Peter Pan complex and talks in bad poems. When Arden doesn't survive the road, both her husband and son are left behind to make sense of an often insane and unjust world. An engaging and thoughtful read, A Game To Play On The Tracks is a sophisticated, albeit moody, reflection on the inequalities and distant dreams of one human life.