Inside

Fourteen years after being wrongfully convicted of a murder Mister Myrden is pardoned and released from prison. Stepping back into the world, he feels overwhelmed and disoriented on the outside. When he returns to his old neighbourhood, a street where violence lurks behind practically every door, he finds himself out of place and ambivalent to his wife who is living in another man s house, to his friends who want both to celebrate and provoke further violence, and to the one million dollars compensation he has received from the government. What Myrden wants is his daughter, who is married to an abusive man, and his beloved granddaughter out of that neighbourhood. In a fit of rage, he makes a decision that will save his granddaughter from the cycle of abuse, but will result in his own destructive lurch back to prison. INSIDE is a dazzling novel about the institutions that we create in order to keep people confined, and about how the dynamic of a destructive family often shuts its children off from the vast possibilities of the world.

About the Author :
Kenneth J Harvey's novels include The Town That F orgot How To Breathe, Brud and Nine Tenths Unseen. His books are published in ten countries. He has won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and been nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He lives in a Newfoundland outport.

Review :
"Why had I never heard of this phenomenal Newfoundland writer? . . . What can be done about this ignorance? Nothing, save to shout Harvey's name from the rooftops and tell you to buy this book. Inside is MARVELLOUS, STRANGE, BEAUTIFUL, SAD . . . always utterly potent. There is no other writer like him, Canadian or otherwise." -"The Globe and Mail" "Compassionate, endlessly inventive and daring, [Inside] is manifestly the work of a major writer, and one who single-handedly shifts our literary centre of gravity to the east." -"National Post" "Inside is the kind of novel that brings temporary life back to such cliches as 'gripping' and 'page-turner' . . . . There is no small irony in the fact that the emotionally blunted Myrden will probably stand as one of the more vivid and full-blooded characters of all the Canadian novels being published this year." -"Toronto Star" "Newfoundland writer Kenneth J. Harvey's latest novel Inside is a potent, at times punishing, prose masterstroke. It further cements Harvey's renown as one of Canada's most dynamic and daring writers. . . . Inside is a visceral, muscular and timely tale." -"Ottawa Xpress " "Powerful and tragic. . . . A well-crafted tale of a man struggling to find redemption." -"The Works" (UK)" ""Inside is a gripping, moving story, and a strong follow-up to Harvey's The Town That Forgot How To Breathe, and Shack, a short story collection. . . . A great book and a real achievement." --"The Telegram" (St. John's) "There is an insistent, angry edge here that is unsettling and yet exhilarating, perhaps because we have all felt it. Inside feels like 12 rounds in the ring. Readers will emerge battered, but somehow invigorated." --"Quill & Quire" "A tough, unrelenting novel, thrilling and darkly eloquent and, in the end, a celebration of what life offers in even the harshest of circumstances." --John Banville, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea "Edgy, redemptive and utterly compelling." --Sandra Martin, "Elle Canada" Praise for "Shack: Short Stories" (2004): "Kenneth J. Harvey's star is rising. . . . His writing is so darkly, massively powerful that it will likely sweep all his potential competitors away with inexorable, tidal force." --"The Globe and Mail" Praise for "The Town That Forgot How to Breathe" (2003): "An eerie and gripping story, the work of an extravagantly haunted imagination." --J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace "From the Hardcover edition." "Why had I never heard of this phenomenal Newfoundland writer? . . . What can be done about this ignorance? Nothing, save to shout Harvey's name from the rooftops and tell you to buy this book. Inside is MARVELLOUS, STRANGE, BEAUTIFUL, SAD . . . always utterly potent. There is no other writer like him, Canadian or otherwise." -"The Globe and Mail" "Compassionate, endlessly inventive and daring, [Inside] is manifestly the work of a major writer, and one who single-handedly shifts our literary centre of gravity to the east." -"National Post" "Inside is the kind of novel that brings temporary life back to such cliches as 'gripping' and 'page-turner' . . . . There is no small irony in the fact that the emotionally blunted Myrden will probably stand as one of the more vivid and full-blooded characters of all the Canadian novels being published this year." -"Toronto Star" "Newfoundland writer Kenneth J. Harvey's latest novel Inside is a potent, at times punishing, prose masterstroke. It further cements Harvey's renown as one of Canada's most dynamic and daring writers. . . . Inside is a visceral, muscular and timely tale." -"Ottawa Xpress " "Powerful and tragic. . . . A well-crafted tale of a man struggling to find redemption." -"The Works" (UK)" ""Inside is a gripping, moving story, and a strong follow-up to Harvey's The Town That Forgot How To Breathe, and Shack, a short story collection. . . . A great book and a real achievement." --"The Telegram" (St. John's) "There is an insistent, angry edge here that is unsettling and yet exhilarating, perhaps because we have all felt it. Inside feels like 12 rounds in the ring. Readers will emerge battered, but somehow invigorated." --"Quill & Quire" "A tough, unrelenting novel, thrilling and darkly eloquent and, in the end, a celebration of what life offers in even the harshest of circumstances." --John Banville, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea "Edgy, redemptive and utterly compelling." --Sandra Martin, "Elle Canada" Praise for "Shack: Short Stories" (2004): "Kenneth J. Harvey's star is rising. . . . His writing is so darkly, massively powerful that it will likely sweep all his potential competitors away with inexorable, tidal force." --"The Globe and Mail" Praise for "The Town That Forgot How to Breathe" (2003): "An eerie and gripping story, the work of an extravagantly haunted imagination." --J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace "Inside is a gripping, moving story, and a strong follow-up to Harvey's The Town That Forgot How To Breathe, and Shack, a short story collection. . . . A great book and a real achievement." --"The Telegram" (St. John's) "There is an insistent, angry edge here that is unsettling and yet exhilarating, perhaps because we have all felt it. Inside feels like 12 rounds in the ring. Readers will emerge battered, but somehow invigorated." --"Quill & Quire" "A tough, unrelenting novel, thrilling and darkly eloquent and, in the end, a celebration of what life offers in even the harshest of circumstances." --John Banville, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea "Edgy, redemptive and utterly compelling." --Sandra Martin, "Elle Canada" Praise for "Shack: Short Stories" (2004): "Kenneth J. Harvey's star is rising. . . . His writing is so darkly, massively powerful that it will likely sweep all his potential competitors away with inexorable, tidal force." --"The Globe and Mail" Praise for "The Town That Forgot How to Breathe" (2003): "An eerie and gripping story, the work of an extravagantly haunted imagination." --J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace