"The Skeleton Dance" takes place on th emean, formerly clean streets of Toronto before the century ticked over into the new millenium. The story follows Robert Walker, a musician, and his fried, Klin Abrams, a criminal lawyer, as external forces threaten and strain their long-term friendship and lead, eventually, to horrific conequences.
The writing is graphic and colourful, pulling the reader into the novel's swirling maelstrom of drugs, sex, motorcycle and drug gangs, and missing women. The narrative moves relentlessly forward with the quick pacing of a crime novel. "The Skeleton Dance" will appeal to readers who like their literature raw, and who have spaces reserved on their bookshelves for Hubert Selby Jr., Charles Bukowski, Leonard Cohen's "Beautiful Losers," Kerouac, Bret Easton Willis, and W.S. Burroughs.
