Subj : canada's own vonnegut?
To   : August Abolins
From : George Pope
Date : Fri Dec 31 2021 13:07:24

> 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.

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. . .

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5
 * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)

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