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S. McDonald's Confessions of an Empty Purse (Frontenac House, $15.95) is something else again. A transgendered Torontonian, McDonald's first book is the result of his manuscript being selected, in a national competition last year by a three-person jury (of which I was one), for publication by Frontenac House of Calgary.
This book is equal parts funny and wrathful, satirical and acerbic. The lines are almost journalistic, but vivid and personal: "I saw two transsexuals / — talking and laughing — / walking north on Parliament Street. // They were tall, kinda pretty though, / with fabulous height-of-fashion winter coats, / long thin legs and high spike heels."