Kathy Page's themes have been identified as loss, survival, transformation and "the magic by which a bad hand becomes a good chance."; Her newly reissued Frankie Styne & the Silver Man is about the very odd relationship between an obsessive loner who writes gruesome killer novels and his new next-door neighbours, a new mother and her highly unusual infant named Jim.

When the novelist Frank hatches a real-life plot, the lives of the mother Liz and her very strange child are transformed. This new edition marks the onset of a new Writers' Union of Canada initiative to assist members to revive out-of-print work.
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[BCBW 2008]