Confidence

In the stories ofConfidence, there are ecstasy-taking PhD students, financial traders desperate for husbands, owners of failing sex stores, violent and unremovable tenants, aggressive raccoons, seedy massage parlors, experimental filmmakers who record every second of their day, and wives who blog insults directed at their husbands. There are cheating husbands. There are private clubs, crowded restaurants, psychiatric wards. There is one magic cinema and everyone has a secret of some kind. (From Biblioasis)

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Q17:28Russell Smith on Confidence and dark secrets of the elite

Canadian author Russell Smith is back with a new collection of stories about the aging downtown Toronto elite and things they don't want you to know.