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{"id":6815467864123,"title":"Undermajordomo Minor","handle":"undermajordomo-minor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn the The Scotiabank Giller Prize 2015 Longlist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for begetting brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as undermajordomo, he soon discovers the place harbours many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle’s master, Baron Von Aux. In the local village, he also encounters thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and Klara, a delicate beauty whose love he must compete for with the exceptionally handsome partisan soldier, Adolphus. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUndermajordomo Minor\u003c\/em\u003e is a triumphant ink-black comedy of manners by the Governor General’s Award–winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sisters Brothers\u003c\/em\u003e. It is an adventure, and a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behaviour, but above all it is a love story. 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Nervy, hilarious, and utterly unpredictable, Patrick deWitt has served up another dazzler.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette?","OtherText_Review_1":"Undermajordomo Minor wears a fairy-tale cloak, but at its wondrous and fantastical heart lies an unexpectedly moving story about love, home, and the difficulty of finding one’s place in the world. 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I cannot think of anyone else who could pull off so beautifully this controlled explosion of drollery, mischief , sly fun, and tenderness.","OtherText_Review_20":"Page by page, the book is often a hoot, brimming with winningly quirky characters operating by their own twisted fairy-tale logic.","OtherText_Review_20_Auth":"Michael Bourne","OtherText_Review_20_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_21":"By turns whimsical and macabre, fanciful and sinister…it is a journey of self-knowledge and self-realization, complete with sinister twists and menacing turns. It is a mythic journey from darkness to light, during which the hero accepts his fate and becomes the man he was destined to be. Moreover, it is a darn good read.","OtherText_Review_21_Auth":"Rob Reid","OtherText_Review_21_Src":"Waterloo Region Record","OtherText_Review_22":"Undermajordomo Minor is an audacious fairy tale in the form of a novel. Or an outlandish novel as a fairy tale. Doesn’t matter. It’s a bold, genre-twisting narrative, worthy of a read.","OtherText_Review_22_Auth":"Thomas Trofimuk","OtherText_Review_22_Src":"The Winnipeg Review","OtherText_Review_23":"…a darkly funny fable.","OtherText_Review_23_Auth":"Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson","OtherText_Review_23_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others","OtherText_Review_3":"Undermajordomo Minor is a wonderfully wry and wise novel, and reading it is like coming across some twisted classic — Cervantes by way of Louis C.K. I marvel at all that Patrick deWitt is able to do on the page.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins","OtherText_Review_4":"Undermajordomo Minor is brutal, brilliant, sly, absurd, and poignant. It's both gripping tale and hilarious subversion. Once again Patrick deWitt proves his wild, original talent, generous wit, and exquisite control.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask","OtherText_Review_5":"In his delightful and dark new novel, Booker nominee deWitt brings his amusingly off-kilter vision to a European folk tale . . . DeWitt uses familiar tropes to lull the reader into a false sense of grounding, delivering with abundant good humor a fully realized, consistently surprising, and thoroughly amusing tale of longing, love, madness, and mirth.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_6":"... eerily precise ... DeWitt is a true original, conjuring up dark and hilarious images. This is a bizarre, darkly funny, passionate ... book.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"The Times","OtherText_Review_7":"with its blend of fantasy and gothic romance, Undermajordomo Minor sounded unlikely to enchant a literalist like me. How wrong I was. From its pitch-perfect opening onwards, it's clear from the unusual atmosphere and droll narration that deWitt has created a unique fictional universe….The challenge for the reader is to resist the temptation to devour a novel which should be savoured.","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Max Liu","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"The Independent","OtherText_Review_8":"Fans of The Sisters Brothers will rejoice at the return of deWitt’s wry, funny dialogue and over-the-top, almost slapstick violence.","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Sue Carter","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Metro","OtherText_Review_9":"Undermajordomo Minor is a masterpiece of wit.","OtherText_Review_9_Auth":"Danny Gorny","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Toronto Is Awesome","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeCode_1":"05","PrizeName_0":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_1":"Leacock Medal for Humour","PrizeYear_0":"2015","PrizeYear_1":"2016","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2015-09-05","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
Undermajordomo Minor
A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners.
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He now lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Gopnik, Adam (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e contributor Adam Gopnik, whose subject is winter -- the season, the space, the cycle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGopnik takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists, and thinkers, who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. Here we learn how a poem by William Cowper heralds the arrival of the middle class; how snow science leads to existential questions of God and our place in the world; how the race to the poles marks the human drive to imprint meaning on a blank space. Gopnik’s kaleidoscopic work ends in the present day, when he traverses the underground city in Montreal, pondering the future of Northern culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A stunningly beautiful meditation buoyed by Gopnik’s trademark gentle wit, \u003cem\u003eWinter\u003c\/em\u003e is at once an enchanting homage to an idea of a season and a captivating journey through the modern imagination. This deluxe 50th anniversary edition includes full-colour images printed on two 8-page inserts.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9780887849749","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9780887849749\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.25","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"272","OtherText_Review_0":"Winter is a soulful, studied meditation on the season that most captures our imagination . . . highly recommended.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Helen Gallagher","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Review of Books","OtherText_Review_1":"...outstanding...[Adam Gopnik's] windows on winter illuminate varied aspects of the season, but, more profoundly, they also shed light on the human condition and our complex relationship with nature.","OtherText_Review_10":"... sensationally good ...","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Heather Mallick","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_11":"[Gopnik is] a wonderful essayist, erudite, elegant and incisive.","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"John Preston","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Telegraph","OtherText_Review_12":"Few writers are as adept as Gopnik, a natural born essayist, at generating such thoughts and seeing them spiritedly advancing across the page, like the \"secret ministry\" of frost at midnight.","OtherText_Review_12_Auth":"Tim Adams","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_13":"These lectures, these chapters, these thematic notes rise and fall with the senses they evoke: not just the visual indulgences of art, the oral of poetry, the taste of warm dishes, the touch of snowflakes, the absent odor of frigid air: Gopnik outfits winter with art, literature, bodily experience, and history, such that the reader can recall the season in the context of culture as well as anticipate it as well.","OtherText_Review_13_Auth":"Myrdene Anderson","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"American Book Review","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Barbara Carey","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"...charming...[Adam Gopnik's essays] provide a timely reminder that we still have something to learn about the season.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Joel Yanofsky","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_Review_3":"... a stream of endlessly entertaining insights and ideas -- a treasury of people and places and art.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Charles Wilkins","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"... a book every Canadian needs to own.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Megan Power","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Chronicle Herald","OtherText_Review_5":"... enlightening and full of discovery ... insightful ...","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Alex Good","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_6":"... pleasurably readable ... the Massey selectors made an inspired choice for 2011.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Ian McGillis","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Montreal Review of Books","OtherText_Review_7":"Gopnik melds familiar and arcane without talking down to readers ... thoughtful ...","OtherText_Review_7_Auth":"Bill Rambo","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_8":"[Adam Gopnik] is adept at connecting disparate subjects and ideas in interesting and unusual ways.","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Geoff Allen","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Canadian Geographic","OtherText_Review_9":"... beautifully written ...","OtherText_Review_9_Auth":"Jan Johnston","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Columbian","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Adam Gopnik's 2011 CBC Massey Lectures is at once an enchanting homage to a season and a captivating journey through the modern imagination.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"Globe and Mail Top 100 Book","PrizeYear_0":"2011","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2011-08-24","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"Adam Gopnik's 2011 CBC Massey Lectures is at once an enchanting homage to a season and a captivating journey through the modern imagination.","Subtitle":"Five Windows on the Season","Width":"5.75","WidthCode":"in"}
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Adam Gopnik's 2011 CBC Massey Lectures is at once an enchanting homage to a season and a captivating journey through the modern imagination.
