RETURN TO SWAN LAKE

a novel by Gary Canup

A contemporary story about the complexities and corruption of the adult world encroaching upon the simple innocent world of two twelve-year-olds, who deal with the problem by retreating to a secret hideaway in the woods, which the girl has dubbed Swan Lake. 

 

In Part One, a wealthy socialite, monomaniacally obsessed with her dream of her daughter becoming a prima ballerina, all but forces the girl into the bed of a pedophiliac impresario. 

 

In Part Two, a brilliant but cynical and nihilistic young man takes the now sixteen-year-old boy out to lose his virginity, and the evening turns into a violent urban nightmare.