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9780151014835

Inside

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  • ISBN13:

    9780151014835

  • ISBN10:

    0151014833

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-10-08
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Summary

After fourteen years in prison, Myrden is released, proven innocent by new DNA evidence. Greeted by friends and enemies, and a wife who'd lost no time moving on while he was away, he is now unwittingly famous as he awaits a hefty financial settlement from the government. Myrden clings to his young granddaughter and to a girlfriend from his past, hoping that the money can free them all from the cycles of revenge and failure that have marked his life. But it's not easy to leave the old neighborhood behind. Written in prose that brilliantly reflects Myrden's cautious evaluation of everyone and everything in the outside world, Inside pulls the reader forward with the quiet gravity of Greek tragedy.

Author Biography

KENNETH J. HARVEY is the author of sixteen books, published in Canada and internationally. Inside was long-listed for the 2006 Giller Prize and has been selected as a Best Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail (Toronto) and the National Post (Toronto), among others. He lives in Newfoundland.

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Chapter OneThey had made a mistake. They had realized. Everything he had moved through. The trail behind him. The institutional walls that kept him. The day in and day out. The tangle of men. It was meant to go away. Each step he took from his cell to the admitting office was fixed in his memory. Years of what was there and what wasnt. If the thought came to him. Hed shut it off. The things that were missing. He tried not to feel himself moving. Tightened up against each action. Refused to see the eyes set steady on him. Being led toward 9 a.m. Release. He had sat in the same admitting office fourteen years ago. He had taken in every detail then. Went spitefully through the process. Money and valuables removed. Receipt signed by him. File started. Name. Address. Next of kin. Religion. Offence. Photo taken. Strip search. Shower in the stall across the way. Clothes returned to him. Cell assigned. His mind troubled by the process for months after. Picking it over, again and again. Impossible to make different. Now, he was in that room again. The sheriff handed him the receiver. Hello, he said. The feel of the phone in his hand was something he did not like. Hi, Poppy. I see you on TV all the time. Youre famous. Youre coming home, right? I cant wait to see you. Her little voice. Tears blurred the floor where he was looking. He said few words because words were hard for him after all this time. Then he hung up. The sheriff gave him his belongings and, with a bowed head, said: This way. He left the admitting office. Saw the shower stall across the corridor. He should be made to take one now. Before they let him out. Clean him off. Scour him. But it didnt happen. Only what came in mattered. He followed the uniform through the locked door and across the yard. The high walls topped with coils of barbed wire. The towers with guards in them when he first came in. No guards there now. Video cameras everywhere. Nothing moving in that yard. Just the two of them. Him and the uniform. He looked back at the windows. The faces there watching him go. Time dead in their eyes. Up ahead, there was a female guard. On a woodenwalkway behind a tall wire fence. She unlocked the gate to let them pass alongside the visiting area. Like a school portable when he was young. Then through another locked gate. Keys rattling. Through another door. Not made of steel or wire. A room made of wood instead of cinder block. The sound of it underfoot. Different air. Different mood. Almost normal. Easy. People waiting to visit. Ordinary people who could come and go. Outside life written all over them. The metal detector. Passing through. Thinking he might set it off for no good reason. The video camera showing the other side of the main door. The crowd gathered there in the parking lot. Moving around but silent on that screen. Waiting for his release. He saw the book for signing in and out. Resting on a ledge. The different signatures. He passed by the visitors. They watche

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