LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZETHE GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 30 CANADIAN BOOKS TO READ IN 2023CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023All talk, no action The Mezzanine meets Ducks, Newburyport in this meandering and captivating debut Its a hot summer night, and Hugh Dalgarno, a 31yearold clerical worker, thinks his brain is broken. Over the course of a day and night in an uncannily depopulated public park, he will sift through the pieces and traverse the baroque landscape of his own thoughts the theology of nosiness, the beauty of the arbutus tree, the pathos of Gene Hackman, the theory of quantum immortality, Louis Riels letter to an Irish newspaper, the baleful influence of Calvinism on the Scottish working class, the sea, the CIA, and, ultimately, thinking itself and how it may be represented in writing. The result is a strange, meandering sojourn, as if the historyhaunted landscapes of W. G. Sebalds The Rings of Saturn were shrunk down to a mere 85 acres. These digressions are anchored by remarks from the letters of Keats, by snatches of lyrics from Irish rebel songs and Scottish folk ballads, and, above all else, by the worldshattering call of the redwinged blackbird."From the first page to the last I felt wholly captivated byFalling Hourand Hughs sensitive and farranging digressions. Morrison has captured the magic of Sebald and made it entirely his own, a curiously anticapitalist...

Binding: Paperback;224 pages; Publisher: Coach House Books; Classification: FA; Weight: 488 g; Dimensions: 215 x 140 x 20

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