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Title	:	Kicking the Sky
Author	:	Anthony De Sa
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	September 10th 2013 by Doubleday Canada (first published February 12th 2013)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Young Adult. Coming Of Age

Kicking the Sky

Anthony De Sa

Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 3.55 | 548 Users | 115 Reviews

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On a steamy summer day in 1977, Emanuel Jaques was shining shoes in downtown Toronto. Surrounded by the strip clubs, bars and body rub parlors of Yonge Street, Emanuel was lured away from his friends by a man who promised some easy money. Four days later the boy's body was discovered. He had been brutally raped and murdered, and Toronto the Good would never be the same. The murder of the Shoeshine Boy had particularly tragic resonance for the city's Portuguese community. The loss of one of their own symbolized for many how far they were from realizing their immigrant dreams.

Kicking the Sky is told from the perspective of one of these children, Antonio Rebelo, a character first introduced in Barnacle Love. Twelve-year-old Antonio prizes his life of freedom and adventure. He and his best friends, Manny and Ricky, spend their days on their bikes exploring the labyrinth of laneways that link their Portuguese neighborhood to the rest of the city. But as the details of Emanuel's death expose Toronto's seedier underbelly, the boys are pulled into an adult world of danger and cruelty, secrets and lies much closer to home.

Kicking the Sky is a novel driven by dramatic events, taking hold of readers from its opening pages, intensifying its force towards an ending of huge emotional impact.

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ISBN:	0385664389 (ISBN13: 9780385664387)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Toronto, Ontario(Canada)

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A few years ago, as part of Doors Open Toronto, author Anthony De Sa met with a group of us at the Factory Theatre to read from his story collection, Barnacle Love, and afterwards, to take us for a tour of his former neighbourhood west of there. We followed the author along back alleyways and into his uncle David's back yard, where a fig tree was thriving. That day, I was enthralled by De Sa's love for Little Portugal, an area that had formed him.Kicking the Sky is set in these very same back

Many adults can look back remember that moment in their childhood when innocence was lost. I grew up roaming the streets, empty fields and parks of my suburban neighbourhood, unsupervised and relatively fearless, Aside from the occasional bullies who might claim our "fort" we had few worries. Two things changed all of that for me 1) my younger sister had an encounter with a flasher, and 2) in the Fall of 1970 the radical separatist FLQ group, at the time considered terrorists, carried out a

The body of a young shoeshine boy has been found in a Portuguese neighborhood in Toronto, Canada. The youngster had been abducted, brutalized, and dumped in a trash sack. The murder rocks the small community to its very core. Antonio Rebelos and his buddies Ricky and Manny are all poised on the narrow strip of no mans land between child and adult, each trying to figure out who he wants to be, what he is and is not willing to do to make money, and dealing with the uncertainties of life in



Set in a Portuguese neighbourhood in Toronto in the 1970s at the time of an infamous killing which dominated the news and coloured how many people viewed gay men (as predators, deviants and child-murderers). That is the framework for this book. So theres a lot going on in the novel; perhaps too much. Was Jesus in the shellfish too much? Was the character Edite too much (with her expository sources in the police department)? The "coming out" conversations did not feel true to me. There was much

awesome, great characters and enough depth to relate to each.

This story takes places in 1977 and revolves around the true story of Emanuel Jaques. Emanuel was a 12-year-old Portuguese shoeshine boy working on Yonge Street who was lured to an apartment above a rub-and-tug to help move some camera equipment for some quick cash. Over the span of twelve hours he was tortured and raped and eventually murdered. I didn't move to Toronto until 1987 so didn't know about this tragedy until I started reading this book. Gord was born and raised in Toronto and said it