Subj : canada's own vonnegut?
To   : All
From : August Abolins
Date : Tue Jul 20 2021 11:24:42

A new book, just released, boasts..

“Canadians rejoice! Our Vonnegut has finally arrived! Morgan Murray’s debut is
a great, brawling, sprawling, muscular glory of a story. Funny, dark, and
wholly original.” -- Will Ferguson, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize

A brief synopsis:

In late 2008, as the world’s economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the
White House, the remarkably unremarkable Milton Ontario – not to be confused
with Milton, Ontario – leaves his parents’ 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 – Leonard Cohen. Hilariously ironic and
irreverent, in Dirty Birds, Morgan Murray generates a quest novel for the
twenty-first century—a coming-of-age, rom-com, crime-farce thriller—where a
hero’s greatest foe is his own crippling mediocrity as he seeks purpose in art,
money, power, crime, and sleeping in all day.
--- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux
 * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757.2)

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