Lee Henderson

Lee Henderson

Lee Henderson’s highly anticipated first novel The Man Game (Penguin Canada, 2008) was published to rave reviews in the National Post, Quill & Quire and CBC Radio and went on to win the 2009 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award. Lee’s debut short story collection The Broken Record Technique (Penguin Canada, 2002) won the 2003 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. He is a contributing editor to the arts magazines Border Crossings in Canada and Contemporary in the UK. He has published fiction and art criticism in numerous periodicals and co-organized “Father Zosima Presents”, a monthly night of sound performances in Vancouver.

On a recent Vancouver Sunday afternoon, a young man stumbles upon a secret sport invented more than a century before, at the birth of his city. Thus begins The Man Game, Lee Henderson’s epic tale of loved requited and not, that crosses the contemporary and historical in an extravagant, anarchistic retelling of the early days of a pioneer town on the edge of the known world.

Lee Henderson read at the Lillooet Room of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on March 25th, 2010.