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{"id":6983143129147,"title":"Some Maintenance Required","handle":"some-maintenance-required","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBestselling author of \u003cem\u003eAutopsy of a Boring Wife \u003c\/em\u003eMarie-Renée Lavoie is a master of making us fall in love with her characters. She does it again with the tender coming-of-age story \u003cem\u003eSome Maintenance Required\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIt is 1993, the last year of school and Laurie’s final spring before adulthood. She works part time at a restaurant and looks after Cindy, her neglected, potty-mouthed little neighbour. Like her mother, Laurie devours books and dreams big. Her father works at a garage, where Laurie constantly struggles to keep her car running. It is here that a budding romance intensifies Laurie’s understanding of class differences, and opens her eyes to a more complicated world. With her big heart, she takes Cindy globe-trotting without even leaving town, and learns how to come to terms with circumstances beyond her control. Life teaches Laurie that everyone requires some maintenance sometimes. A story of taking responsibility and coming into adulthood, \u003cem\u003eSome Maintenance Required\u003c\/em\u003e is as funny and as impressive as its main character.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-09-13T15:15:17-04:00","created_at":"2022-09-13T13:56:37-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Humor","Arachnide Editions","By (author) Lavoie Marie-Renée","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2022-07-05","Translated by Aaronson Arielle"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40780137824315,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007737","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Some Maintenance Required - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":244,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487007737","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40780138053691,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007744","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Some Maintenance Required - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487007744","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_2f1ea358-07f7-4979-973d-7c215bda8884.jpg?v=1691297159"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_2f1ea358-07f7-4979-973d-7c215bda8884.jpg?v=1691297159","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: Some Maintenance Required by Marie-RenŽe Lavoie. A blurry image of a person standing on a dirt road. They have a light skin tone, and are wearing a pink polka dot dress. They are only visible from the chest down.","id":23674768916539,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_2f1ea358-07f7-4979-973d-7c215bda8884.jpg?v=1691297159"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_2f1ea358-07f7-4979-973d-7c215bda8884.jpg?v=1691297159","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBestselling author of \u003cem\u003eAutopsy of a Boring Wife \u003c\/em\u003eMarie-Renée Lavoie is a master of making us fall in love with her characters. She does it again with the tender coming-of-age story \u003cem\u003eSome Maintenance Required\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIt is 1993, the last year of school and Laurie’s final spring before adulthood. She works part time at a restaurant and looks after Cindy, her neglected, potty-mouthed little neighbour. Like her mother, Laurie devours books and dreams big. Her father works at a garage, where Laurie constantly struggles to keep her car running. It is here that a budding romance intensifies Laurie’s understanding of class differences, and opens her eyes to a more complicated world. With her big heart, she takes Cindy globe-trotting without even leaving town, and learns how to come to terms with circumstances beyond her control. Life teaches Laurie that everyone requires some maintenance sometimes. A story of taking responsibility and coming into adulthood, \u003cem\u003eSome Maintenance Required\u003c\/em\u003e is as funny and as impressive as its main character.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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She lives in Limoilou.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eARIELLE AARONSON\u003c\/strong\u003e left her native New Jersey in 2007 to pursue a diploma in Translation Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. She holds an M.A. in Second Language Education from McGill University and has spent the past few years teaching English in the Montreal public school system and creating educational material for second language learners. She previously translated Marie-Renée Lavoie’s \u003cem\u003eAutopsy of a Boring Wife\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Boring Wife Settles the Score\u003c\/em\u003e for Arachnide.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Lavoie, Marie-Renée (CA)","Contributor_1":"Aaronson, Arielle (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBestselling author of \u003cem\u003eAutopsy of a Boring Wife \u003c\/em\u003eMarie-Renée Lavoie is a master of making us fall in love with her characters. She does it again with the tender coming-of-age story \u003cem\u003eSome Maintenance Required\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIt is 1993, the last year of school and Laurie’s final spring before adulthood. She works part time at a restaurant and looks after Cindy, her neglected, potty-mouthed little neighbour. Like her mother, Laurie devours books and dreams big. 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From the bestselling author of Autopsy of a Boring Wife, a tender coming-of-age story.
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{"id":6815466291259,"title":"The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps","handle":"the-first-little-bastard-to-call-me-gramps","description":"\u003cp\u003eBill Richardson, winner of the Stephen Leacock medal for humour and former CBC Radio personality, delivers a “fresh and frisky” poetic take on transitioning into life as a retiree and living through the golden years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn their frank and witty delivery, Richardson’s illustrated retirement rhymes for the hoary-headed do not just playfully reveal the inevitable weakening that afflicts the mind and body as the years wear on, they also cast light on the ageless, exuberant spirit that too often remains hidden inside. From retirement homes, cruises, and grandchildren to liver spots, memory problems, and geriatric sex, Richardson’s candid reflections on the trials, tribulations, and humiliations of growing old are funny, sharp, and irreverent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated by award-winning artist Roxanna Bikadoroff, \u003cem\u003eThe First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential companion to the graces, and disgraces, of ageing.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T17:43:35-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T14:32:20-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Humor","Adult Poetry","By (author) Richardson Bill","House of Anansi Press","Illustrated by Bikadoroff Roxanna","pub date: 2015-10-10"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40209980981307,"title":"hardcover","option1":"hardcover","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000547","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps - hardcover","public_title":"hardcover","options":["hardcover"],"price":1995,"weight":299,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487000547","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6c8a8837-8d74-44b0-a834-3f94c1c40358.jpg?v=1660539399"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6c8a8837-8d74-44b0-a834-3f94c1c40358.jpg?v=1660539399","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22517051850811,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.641,"height":563,"width":361,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6c8a8837-8d74-44b0-a834-3f94c1c40358.jpg?v=1660539399"},"aspect_ratio":0.641,"height":563,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6c8a8837-8d74-44b0-a834-3f94c1c40358.jpg?v=1660539399","width":361}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eBill Richardson, winner of the Stephen Leacock medal for humour and former CBC Radio personality, delivers a “fresh and frisky” poetic take on transitioning into life as a retiree and living through the golden years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn their frank and witty delivery, Richardson’s illustrated retirement rhymes for the hoary-headed do not just playfully reveal the inevitable weakening that afflicts the mind and body as the years wear on, they also cast light on the ageless, exuberant spirit that too often remains hidden inside. From retirement homes, cruises, and grandchildren to liver spots, memory problems, and geriatric sex, Richardson’s candid reflections on the trials, tribulations, and humiliations of growing old are funny, sharp, and irreverent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated by award-winning artist Roxanna Bikadoroff, \u003cem\u003eThe First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential companion to the graces, and disgraces, of ageing.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps
A “fresh and frisky” poetic take on transitioning into life as a retiree and living through the golden years.
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Additional details when they’re available.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[Introduction to The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy (uncorrected)]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \r\n \u003cp\u003eOn a spring-like Sunday evening in May of 2015, I entered San Francisco’s prestigious Warfield Theater to catch up with my old friends, the legendary comedy troupe known as the Kids In The Hall. As longtime stage director Jim Millan ushered me into the backstage domain, I found them distractedly immersed in their various pre-show rituals, and as usual, it fell to Kevin McDonald to be the first to greet me, offering drinks and snacks before walking me over to a large round table where Mark McKinney nodded hello from behind a newspaper and Bruce McCulloch broke briefly from a conversation with his wife Tracy to raise an eyebrow in lieu of a verbal greeting. A jittery Scott Thompson darted in and out of the room, seeming to have misplaced something important, while Dave Foley offered me a warm handshake with one hand while nursing a soft drink in the other, having recently gone on the wagon. By this point, I had known the troupe for over thirty years, but while these five middle-aged men had long since outgrown their childlike name, very little else seemed to have changed about them since the day we met. While a sense of imminent fun hung over the backstage area, this was not a party; these men were about to go to work at the job they had created for themselves back on the streets of Toronto in the early 80s. As curtain time approached, Millan politely asked all visitors to clear the room and take their seats, affording me my first opportunity to get an unscientific read on the age demographics of the 2300 fans in the sold-out house. Surprisingly, it wasn’t all silver foxes like myself and it seemed to me that roughly half the house was comprised of millennials or younger, a large cross-section of these people hadn’t even been born when \u003cem\u003eThe Kids In The Hall\u003c\/em\u003e TV series was still on network television in the early 1990s, and it was entirely possible that, for many, this was their first time at a Kids In The Hall live show. As the house lights dimmed, a recording of Shadowy Men on A Shadowy Planet’s “Having An Average Weekend,” the official theme for the Kids’ TV series, echoed through the auditorium to cheers of instant recognition. The air was as electric as I was nostalgic.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eTaking in the moment I realized that the Kids and I had come a long way, some 30 years and 2,634 miles (4239 km) to be precise, to get here. My mind raced back to Toronto in the winter of 1985, at the very show where I had first realized that maybe, just maybe, these guys had something special. As in all the best stories, it opens on a dark and stormy night, when an especially nasty blizzard was heaping obscene amounts of snow upon the city. TTC streetcars were backed up all along Queen Street and most major surface routes, and you couldn’t get a cab to save your life. Frankly, if you had nothing better to do, you were best advised to stay home under a blanket, preferably near a space heater.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eYet some of us brave comedy aficionados \u003cem\u003edid\u003c\/em\u003e have something better to do, we who had bravely trudged through six-foot snowdrifts, past cars that wouldn’t be dug out until morning, just to get to a tiny cabaret bar called The Rivoli, where a photocopied poster on a telephone pole out front beckoned, “Man The Laff Boats, it’s The Kids In The Hall.” \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eOnce safely inside the warm confines of the Riv, we bought our drinks from the bartender and talent booker, Carson, and took our seats just as Dave, Kevin, Bruce, Mark, and Scott commandeered two cramped but functional stages and went about the hilarious business of fulfilling their weekly residency. Besides the dreadful weather, the news that day had been dominated by a horrific Air India plane crash, and a kind of black cloud seemed to hang in the air above the city. Earlier that afternoon, the five Kids had huddled backstage to mull over whether they should even play the show at all, operating on the assumption that nobody would make it through the storm, or feel much like laughing if they did. Instead, they opted do the show anyway, for themselves, audience or not.\u003c\/p\u003e \r\n \u003cp\u003e “The show went on,” says McDonald, “and for some reason, this became the first night that we had a lineup around the block and even had to turn people away. After that night, we always had a great audience at the Rivoli.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eThe troupe had been honing their act for months, and I had been laughing along with their uniquely suburban takes on social justice, big city life, and institutional hypocrisy. Week after week, I had witnessed them creating fresh new material out of the ether, creating new characters and forging a unique comedy aesthetic, right before our eyes. While clearly informed by \u003cem\u003eMonty Python’s Flying Circus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSCTV\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/em\u003e, their highly disruptive comedy that was as anarchic as any punk rock show playing in the neighbouring bars of the Queen Street strip. Sure they were all white males, but in the early 80s just having one of those white males be openly gay, and not always playing it for laughs, seemed revolutionary. While they played all the female roles themselves, it never seemed like a campy drag act, and their “ladies” were frequently the heroes of their scenes. While the name was already age inappropriate – even then, they were all in their early to mid-twenties -- it also announced them as perennial outsiders, the punks in the corridor, ready to break into the big room by any means necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eI had discovered them early on, and organically. After my younger brother, the sketch comedian and writer Mike Myers, had flourished at the Second City Theatre’s comedy workshops, I found myself following him to class and soon I too was learning the ways and history of improv comedy alongside my fellow students, Kevin and Dave. They said they had been doing shows and that I should come to see them. As fate would have it, my girlfriend at the time mentioned a comedy troupe she’d heard about that featured a fellow student from York University named Scott. Of course, all roads were leading us to The Rivoli, and as Toronto thawed out and warmed up, so too did the buzz around The Kids In The Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eEventually that buzz translated into a career in television and I became a regular member of the studio audience for their live tapings. Soon, our secret was out, and their name spread across the country and beyond. Just as \u003cem\u003eSCTV\u003c\/em\u003e had put Canadian comedy on the map, \u003cem\u003eThe Kids In The Hall\u003c\/em\u003e updated it and made it even cooler.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eAs they moved into film and theatre tours, various tensions within the troupe would at times threaten their fragile union, but like any thirty-year marriage, they have somehow made it work for three decades and as the curtain opened at Warfield in 2015, the marriage analogy is underlined by the sight of all five Kids in bridal gowns, symbolically re-affirming their vows via classic sketches, while offering new material, just as they had back in those chilly Rivoli days.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eAfter the show, Kevin made it clear to me that while these five strong willed individuals would probably always find something to fight over, but that this same tension was probably also the secret to their longevity. As with their fictional garage rock band in their beloved sketch, Rod Torfulson’s Armada featuring Herman Menderchuck, there were times in the Kids’ career when they questioned if they were going to make it, but judging by the heroes welcome they received in San Francisco, it was clear they had finally arrived (having eaten).\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eIt wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t always fun. As a troupe, they’ve often made risky artistic choices, and probably shot themselves in the foot more than once, all in the name of reaching a consensus, according to McDonald, the state of their union was as strong as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003e “I always say that, individually, we’re five smart guys, but together we add up to one dumb guy,” McDonald would later tell me during one of our many conversations for this book. “We create most of our own problems, then we're sad about it, but later on, we can see the humour in them. I think it helps us write better sketches.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eThese pages constitute the inside story of how that One Dumb Guy would go on to write some of the funniest sketch comedy ever performed and inspire their peers and subsequent generations of sketch comedians to create programs such as\u003cem\u003e Mr. Show with Bob \u0026 David\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe State\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Ben Stiller Show\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePortlandia\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKey \u0026 Peele\u003c\/em\u003e, and most recently, \u003cem\u003eThe Baroness Von Sketch Show\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eToday, the Kids In The Hall can still make me laugh whenever I see them or their work, and despite cheating death and worse, they’re still here.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \u003cp\u003eThe story of just how they \u003cem\u003egot\u003c\/em\u003e here begins in earnest in the province of Alberta, when a young drunk punk named Bruce McCulloch met a well-traveled diplomat’s son named Mark McKinney. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Kliph Nesteroff, author of The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"Paul Myers usually writes biographies about rock stars, and he used that approach to create The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy, the story of possibly the greatest comedy troupe of all time, and Canada’s greatest world citizens.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Vulture","OtherText_Review_2":"A terrific account of a truly unique sensation.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The definitive, authorized story of legendary sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-10-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The definitive, authorized story of legendary sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.","Subtitle":"One Dumb Guy","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Kids in the Hall
The definitive, authorized story of legendary sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
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And the divergent possibilities in the novel’s ambiguous ending scene give readers two very different stories to ponder after the final word.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWillamette Week\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"The Times","OtherText_Review_13":"\u003cp\u003e\"Bright and entertaining from beginning to end.\" —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Daily Mail","OtherText_Review_14":"\u003cp\u003e\"A touching, affectionate novel showing, without cliché or agenda, that engagement in old age is a courageous act to be applauded.\" —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Big Issue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_15":"\u003cp\u003e\"deWitt is at his best writing dramatic and comedic scenes … He’s a writer who plays with the conventions of the realist novel.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBritish Columbia Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_16":"\u003cp\u003e\"This novel begs to be read.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Chicago Tribune","OtherText_Review_17":"\u003cp\u003e\"Filled with profound heartbreak and humour … After just a few pages of acclimatization to his style, we’re immersed in deWitt’s world.\" —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Walrus","OtherText_Review_18":"\u003cp\u003e\"DeWitt is a fabulous stylist and unquestionably gifted storyteller … \u003cem \u003eThe Librarianist \u003c\/em\u003estands out most when [he] explores the depths of human relationships and traces the evolutionary development of one man for whom fellow humans have led to unplanned disappointments.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCanadian Notes and Queries\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_18_Src":"I've Read This Blog","OtherText_Review_19":"\u003cp\u003eDeWitt is a fabulous stylist and unquestionably gifted storyteller … \u003cem \u003eThe Librarianist \u003c\/em\u003estands out most when [he] explores the depths of human relationships and traces the evolutionary development of one man for whom fellow humans have led to unplanned disappointments.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_19_Src":"Canadian Notes and Queries","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Booklist, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"deWitt’s writing and endearing characters create a memorable world.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"deWitt is one of the great literary ventriloquists, producing funny, quirky, richly imagined novels shaped each time by a wildly different narrative voice.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Bookpage","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\"A character study of almost defiant gentleness.\" —\u003cstrong \u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Willamette Week","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e\"Personal and existential ... deWitt cobbles together a complicated but heartfelt treatise on introversion and the value of a life lived through books ... [\u003cem \u003eThe Librarianist\u003c\/em\u003e] never strays far from what makes his novels so delightful: his dexterity with language, his interest in what happens when words fail, and the rare moments where they land.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWalrus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Minneapolis Star Tribune","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e\"Utterly charming … Characters come alive immediately on the page and there’s simply an energy to deWitt’s books that make them pleasurable to spend time with.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"The Daily Telegraph","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e\"deWitt’s great gift lies in his ability to depict the Everyman in extremis – heroism hidden in plain sight.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Big Issue","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003e\"The Librarianist\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel that’s interested in happiness … There are elements to be savoured in the nuance of particulars on the page.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eZoomer Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Los Angeles Times","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e\"A bittersweet tale of a retired librarian … deWitt imbues the people he meets with color and quirks, leaving a trail of sparks … This one gradually takes hold until it won’t let go.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"British Columbia Review","OtherText_Review_quote_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdditional Praise for Patrick deWitt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“One of this country’s most distinct voices in fiction.” —\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“deWitt is a stealth absurdist, with a flair for dressing up rhyme as reason.” —\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“My take on Patrick deWitt is that he is a thrilling writer likely to last past our soon-to-be-bygone time.” —\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I will read every book Patrick deWitt writes … deWitt’s writing is always intriguingly off-center.” —\u003cem\u003ePoets \u0026 Writers \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“deWitt is in possession of a fresh, lively voice that surprises at every turn.” —\u003cem\u003eVanity Fair \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“deWitt is the master of episodic structure. 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A new novel from bestselling author Patrick deWitt explores the life of an ordinary man whose world is turned upside down by a chance encounter.
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{"id":6814266327099,"title":"The Old World and Other Stories","handle":"the-old-world-and-other-stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStirred by a series of found photographs, critically acclaimed author Cary Fagan brilliantly imagines the lost stories behind them in this dazzling story collection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany years ago the photographs in this book became separated from their original owners, faces unrecognized, settings a mystery. They floated through this world, as if on a sorrowful wind… I have given them stories to replace the ones they have lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins the bewitching new collection from acclaimed author Cary Fagan, and a journey into a world that is both achingly familiar and wonderfully strange. A man hangs onto a runaway horse. A woman paints in the nude. A child sparks a revolution. 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Cary Fagan has a real ear for dialogue and a way of making each perfectly formed vignette surprising, whether that’s taking a surreal turn in ‘We Have to Be Careful,’ introducing the macabre in ‘Who I’ve Come For,’ or quietly breaking my heart, in ‘Where We Are Now.’","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Claire Fuller, author of Swimming Lessons","OtherText_Accolades_1":"What a dazzlingly imaginative thing to do — Cary Fagan has taken a group of orphaned photographs from the past and turned them into a cabinet of wonders! Inventive, satisfying, and deft, The Old World gets right to the heart of the storytelling craft.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Marni Jackson, author of Don’t I Know You?","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Old World and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e features 35 unique photographs and an accompanying story created around its contents.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eEach story is inspired by a photograph Fagan found and collected over the years, offering small vignettes into people’s lives.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003ePerfect for fans of literary fiction, short fiction, and flash fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdults\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was the first adult party I ever held, although we weren’t really adults, not quite. 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The Old World and Other Stories
Stirred by a series of found photographs, critically acclaimed author Cary Fagan brilliantly imagines the lost stories behind them.
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Structurally, there’s great artistry in the way Wangersky is able to tell, somehow, two stories at the same time, the under-plot gradually easing the main plot out of sight. The stories are full of precise observations, small gifts of reality: the way damp in the air warns you of an approaching storm, a husband “sunk into his chair like a grounded ship.” It’s fine, detached, and subtle writing... At their peak, these stories have the strengths of the author’s finest work–the deeply unsettling spareness of Walt, the visceral insight of Burning Down the House.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Atlantic Books Today","OtherText_Review_2":"Wangersky is adept at creating crystalline moments in which events or lives change or reorganize themselves; rarely does he offer closure or pat solutions to the situations he imagines.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"By tapping into the frustration that comes with being ignored or misunderstood, Wangersky is writing stories that speak to a very base emotion in all Canadians; we’re a more aggressive, competitive people than we like to think. 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Wangersky has delivered a collection unified in its quality, but eclectic and surprising in the breadth of its styles, subjects, and techniques.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An entertaining and insightful collection of stories by award-winning author Russell Wangersky about passive aggression in our everyday lives.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2016-08-20","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An entertaining and insightful collection of stories by award-winning author Russell Wangersky about passive aggression in our everyday lives.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Path of Most Resistance
An entertaining and insightful collection of stories by award-winning author Russell Wangersky about passive aggression in our everyday lives.
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And then, damned if he doesn’t surprise us again with a twilight scene that’s just miraculously lovely.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Ron Charles","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_1":"A powerfully realized work of narrative fiction . . . the dialogue is sharp as a whip . . . the novel works artfully within its formal boundaries to explore the nature of brotherhood, work, love, greed, loneliness, and personal renewal.","OtherText_Review_10":". . . imaginative and ebullient . . . revels in the hilarious life and times of two gunslingers, Eli and Charlie Sisters.","OtherText_Review_10_Auth":"Caroline Leavitt","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Boston Globe","OtherText_Review_11":"The Sisters Brothers is a bloody, nightmarish frontier road trip that seems at times like something out of Cormac McCarthy, yet somehow merges laughter and hope with suffering, death and betrayal. 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So subtle is deWitt’s prose, so slyly note-perfect his rendition of Eli’s voice in all its earnestly charming nineteenth-century syntax, and so compulsively readable his bleakly funny Western noir story, that readers will stick by Eli even as he grinds his heel into the shattered skull of an already dead prospector.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Brian Bethune","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Maclean's","OtherText_Review_4":"Fresh, hilariously anti-heroic, often genuinely chilling, and relentlessly compelling. Yes, this is a mighty fine read, and deWitt a mighty fine writer.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Michael Christie","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_5":"The Sisters Brothers confirms Patrick deWitt as one of the most talented young writers around.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Sunday Times","OtherText_Review_6":"Okay, so it does take a Canadian to write a truly great Western novel of daunting, surrealist panache and rooted in unwavering empathy — and that just about sums up the dark, profound achievement which is The Sisters Brothers.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Irish Times","OtherText_Review_7":"[Patrick] DeWitt has produced a genre-bending frontier saga that is exciting, funny, and perhaps unexpectedly, moving.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_8":". . . a lushly voiced picaresque story . . . It's a kind of True Grit told by Tom Waits.","OtherText_Review_8_Auth":"Tom Chiarella","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Esquire","OtherText_Review_9":"I doubt very much I'll read a funnier, more original book than this picaresque, Wild West tale . . . a terrifically spun yarn . . . masterfully strange and wonderful . . .","OtherText_Review_9_Auth":"Emily Donaldon","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"In this #1 national bestseller, Patrick deWitt spins a violent, lustful, hung-over and humorous odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_10":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_11":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_12":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_13":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_14":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_15":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_16":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_17":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_18":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_19":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_20":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_21":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_22":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_23":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_24":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_25":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_3":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_4":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_5":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_6":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_7":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_8":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_9":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_10":"03","PrizeCode_11":"01","PrizeCode_12":"04","PrizeCode_13":"01","PrizeCode_14":"04","PrizeCode_15":"01","PrizeCode_16":"01","PrizeCode_17":"04","PrizeCode_18":"05","PrizeCode_19":"04","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeCode_20":"01","PrizeCode_21":"01","PrizeCode_22":"03","PrizeCode_23":"03","PrizeCode_24":"03","PrizeCode_25":"03","PrizeCode_3":"01","PrizeCode_4":"03","PrizeCode_5":"03","PrizeCode_6":"03","PrizeCode_7":"03","PrizeCode_8":"03","PrizeCode_9":"03","PrizeName_0":"Man Booker Prize for Fiction","PrizeName_1":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_10":"Maclean's Magazine Best Books","PrizeName_11":"Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award","PrizeName_12":"CBC Bookie Awards: Literary Fiction","PrizeName_13":"Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal","PrizeName_14":"Walter Scott Prize","PrizeName_15":"Oregon Book Awards: Ken Kesey Award for Fiction","PrizeName_16":"CBA Libris Award: Fiction Book of the Year","PrizeName_17":"CBA Libris Award: Author of the Year","PrizeName_18":"IMPAC Dublin Literary Award","PrizeName_19":"Google Play International Author of the Year","PrizeName_2":"Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize","PrizeName_20":"Prix des libraires du Quebec","PrizeName_21":"Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award: Fiction Book of the Year","PrizeName_22":"An Indigo Best Book of the Decade","PrizeName_23":"An Amazon.ca Best Books Editors’ Pick","PrizeName_24":"An Amazon.ca Best Books: Canadian Fiction","PrizeName_25":"A LitHub Best Book of the Decade Runner-Up","PrizeName_3":"Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction","PrizeName_4":"Amazon.ca Best Books: Editors' Pick","PrizeName_5":"Amazon.ca Best Books: Canadian Fiction","PrizeName_6":"Publishers Weekly Best Book","PrizeName_7":"Globe and Mail Top 100 Book","PrizeName_8":"Quill and Quire Book of the Year","PrizeName_9":"Toronto Star Reviewers' Top 100 Books","PrizeYear_0":"2011","PrizeYear_1":"2011","PrizeYear_10":"2011","PrizeYear_11":"2012","PrizeYear_12":"2012","PrizeYear_13":"2012","PrizeYear_14":"2012","PrizeYear_15":"2012","PrizeYear_16":"2012","PrizeYear_17":"2012","PrizeYear_18":"2013","PrizeYear_19":"2012","PrizeYear_2":"2011","PrizeYear_20":"2013","PrizeYear_3":"2011","PrizeYear_4":"2011","PrizeYear_5":"2011","PrizeYear_6":"2011","PrizeYear_7":"2011","PrizeYear_8":"2011","PrizeYear_9":"2011","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2011-05-14","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"Anansi Book Club Editions","ShortDescription":"In this #1 national bestseller, Patrick deWitt spins a violent, lustful, hung-over and humorous odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier.","Width":"6.02","WidthCode":"in"}
The Sisters Brothers
In this #1 national bestseller, Patrick deWitt spins a violent, lustful, hung-over and humorous odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier.
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The Sisters Brothers (Movie Tie-In Edition)
A new edition to coincide with the release of the major motion picture adaptation starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, and John C. Reilly.
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The Slaughterman’s Daughter
A historical adventure story of a woman’s quest to avenge her sister’s honour set in a Jewish shtetl during the final years of the Russian Empire.
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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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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. 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Undermajordomo Minor
A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners.
