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?Henrik Nordmark is a bald, middle-aged security guard with few friends and no romantic possibilities. Tired of being the weed sprouting out of the wallflower, generic in his generality, Henrik has an epiphany. He will have one moment of inimitable distinction, even if it kills him. Henrik first sets out to experience the throes of addiction, then to become virtuous, and barring this to be known as a public menace. Inevitably he resolves to find true love and fails miserably. Along his journey, Henrik inadvertently becomes the target of a team of elderly assassins one

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Publié par	Ecw Press
Date de parution	01 septembre 2010
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781554909728
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Meades, Christopher The three fates of Henrik Nordmark / Christopher Meades.

isbn 978-1-55022-972-1

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ps8626.e234t47 2010 c813'.6 c2010-901255-0

Editor: Jennifer Hale Cover Design: David Gee Text Design: Tania Craan Cover Images © Brent Nelson/iStockphoto.com (man); © Xiangdong Li/iStockphoto.com (plum) Typesetting: Mary Bowness Production: Troy Cunningham Printing: Webcom1 2 3 4 5

This book is set in Akzidenz Grotesk and Garamond.

The first draft of theThree Fates of Henrik Nordmarkwas shortlisted for the2007International3Day Novel competition. In addition, excerpts of this novel have appeared in the following literary print journals:

The Feathertale Review(Toronto, Ontario) Inch(Durham, North Carolina) Cause & Effect(California) Hacksaw Arts Magazine(Vancouver,bc) The Delinquent(London,uk)

The publication ofThe Three Fates of Henrik Nordmarkhas been generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested$20.1million in writing and publishing throughout Canada, by the Ontario Arts Council, by the Government of Ontario through Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit, by the OMDC Book Fund, an initiative of the Ontario Media Development Corporation, and by the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.

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Thanks to:

Wendy Meades, for believing in me, supporting the dream and baking me dozens of Smarties cookies before each marathon writing session. Hanna and Claire, my two little girls. Daddy loves you . . . now try to be good. Brian “Bear” Simmers, my best friend of20years. Jen Hale, my editor, for her invaluable insight and for truly being great to work with. The staff at ECW for all of their hard work. Melissa Edwards and everyone at the3Day Novel contest who shortlisted the first draft ofHenrik Nordmark. Angie Kruger for her legal help & advice. Angie Hirata for her enthusiasm and encouragement. Mom and Dad for paying for an English Lit degree (even though it was probably against their better judgment). Joan Witty and Anne Craig for reading every single story I ever sent them. Margaret Helsdon, my mother-in-law, for her astonishing typo-catching abilities. Sandra and Dan Murray for their guidance and support in the early ’90s. Katherine Dewan & the Dewan Family. Max and Pedro.

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Until that fateful day, Henrik Nordmark had always been an entirely unremarkable fellow. He spoke in a monotonous, repetitive drone. His conversation was benign. He thought only nondescript thoughts and had no particular ambitions in life. To those around him, he was unnoticeable, camou-flaged entirely by his blandness. Henrik worked as a security guard in an office building where for twenty years he had not encountered a single incident that required him to pull out his nightstick. He stood by the doorway all day every day, sphinx-like in contrition and advancement, smiling hesi-tantly and being constantly ignored. You couldn’t blame the people who walked by. Henrik had no redeemable features to draw one’s eye. They passed him as one would pass faded wallpaper in an old hallway during an increasingly urgent search for a toilet. Henrik didn’t do anything. He had no hobbies, no particularly close friends or inter-esting relatives. His outward physical appearance resembled Alfred Hitchcock, with his bald head and stout demeanor, his dou-ble chin and the slight waddle in his walk. The only features that distinguished Henrik at all from the great filmmaker were a severe redness to his skin and a pair of Wookiee-like sideburns that book-ended his round, bulbous head, making

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