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The Antagonist tells the story of Gordon Rankin ("Rank"), a former hockey enforcer driven to seek revenge on a old friend who has published a novel revealing Rank's deepest secret . . . 

With the deep compassion, deft touch, and irreverent humour that have made her one of Canada's best-loved novelists, Lynn Coady delves deeply into the ways we, as a society, sanction and stoke male violence to give readers The Antagonist, a large-hearted, often hilarious portrait of a man tearing himself apart in order to put himself back together.

"Smartly tuned and as unsettling as it intends to be, Coady expertly renders a man who's compelled to address his past but not entirely ready to look in the mirror.  The Antagonist is a caution to tread carefully. -- Kirkus