A new book, just released, boasts..
ôCanadians rejoice! Our Vonnegut has finally arrived! Morgan MurrayÆs debut is
a great, brawling, sprawling, muscular glory of a story. Funny, dark, and wholly original.ö -- Will Ferguson, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize
A brief synopsis:
In late 2008, as the worldÆs economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the White House, the remarkably unremarkable Milton Ontario û not to be confused with Milton, Ontario û leaves his parentsÆ basement in Middle-of-Nowhere, Saskatchewan, and sets forth to find fame, fortune, and love in the Euro-lite electric sexuality of Montreal; to bask in the endless twenty-something Millennial adolescence of the Plateau; to escape the infinite flatness of Saskatchewan and find his messiah û Leonard Cohen. Hilariously ironic and irreverent, in Dirty Birds, Morgan Murray generates a quest novel for the twenty-first centuryùa coming-of-age, rom-com, crime-farce thrillerùwhere a heroÆs greatest foe is his own crippling mediocrity as he seeks purpose in art,
money, power, crime, and sleeping in all day.
A new book, just released, ..
A brief synopsis:
In late 2008, as the worldÆs economy crumbles and Barack
Obama ascends to the White House, the remarkably
unremarkable Milton Ontario û not to be confused with
Milton, Ontario û leaves his parents' basement in..
Is this Goodread's blurb, or the book jacket's?
I'm gettinhg this book, it sounds like the kiind of
irreverent comedy I love most in a novel!
& I should, I think, read more Canadian-produced content,
seeking the gems we produce more often than even we know.
I'm gettinhg this book, it sounds like the kiind of
irreverent comedy I love most in a novel!
The accolades are extensive. Hope you like it. I'm going
to give it a go myself. Some other comments about it refer
to the dry humor style of Hitchhicker's Guide to the
Galaxy, satirical. I liked Vonnegut's humour too.
An update on "Dirty Birds, by Morgan Murray". I'm lovin' it.
The satire is pratically non-stop. Excerpt:
"Saskatchewan is the distillation of geography into the purest
mathematical form of utilitarian colonial averageness.
"It's what happens when history and landscape are erased, and a
kind of bland Victorian modernist utopia is designed from
scratch by bureaucrats who had never seen a prairie sky in its
full spring fury, who had never had a whiff of native prairie
grasses in late summer, who had never had their nostrils freeze
shut in a cold prairie winter
"The Queen's Own Rulers and Her Majesty's Protractors drew a
perfect rectangle in the middle of an imperfect continent.
I think the book might be more enjoyable for folks who are
somewhat familiar who Leonard Cohen is, the streets of
Montreal, and perhaps a lil'bit of french.
"Milton had lost his will to go on. He was sure he was going to
die there, in a pile, on the sidewalk in front of a McDonald's.
Another stranger handed him a couple nickels.
"The custom of giving new arrivals loose change struck him as
odd, but also a bit delightful. What a kind and generous place,
he thought, as someone handed him an entire loonie.
I think the book might be more enjoyable for folks who are
somewhat familiar who Leonard Cohen is, the streets of
Montreal, and perhaps a lil'bit of french.
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