FILE--Elaine McCluskey, author of "Going Fast," a darkly humourous novel that opens in her hometown of Dartmouth, N.S., poses near the city's waterfront on Wednesday, April 29, 2009. McCluskey's award-winning first novel is peopled with has-beens, wannabes and posers, many of whom, it seems, are in search of something they lost or never had, while the worlds they know or thought they knew are vanishing around them.
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