"An Unfinished Innocence" explores adulterous alcoholic substance-abusing schizophrenic author/academic/columnist and inadvertent serial killer Brendan Dogge and his search for redemption.
This one chapter from halfway through "An Unfinished Innocence" explores adulterous alcoholic substance-abusing schizophrenic author/academic/columnist and inadvertent serial killer, Brendan Dogge, and his search for redemption. Charlotte Camarina, a singular dancer, lends her help.
The book as a whole:
Fresh from the psychiatric ward and his long-distance killing of his second victim, Dogge shelters in a Toronto boarding house. His encounter with a boy and a well-intentioned Border Collie spurs his exploration of the past. Can he pay for his crimes by throwing himself into the future? Perhaps the whole thing started when he killed for the first time. Or Brendan Dogge wants to answer only this concern: why one should play carefully with a three-legged dog.
A narrative of understated philosophical complexity similar to Saul Bellow’s Herzog and Philip Roth’s Zuckerman Unbound, "An Unfinished Innocence" always veers toward the comic, reminding us of how strangely art imitates life imitating art.
Perched on the edge of reason, Brendan Dogge waits for his third victim to fall and wonders what it means when we don’t know how to end our stories. "An Unfinished Innocence" comes completed by poo jokes.