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Dirty birds

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  • Author: Murray, Morgan
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    2020
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    ***LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2021*** ***FOREWORD INDIES HUMOUR AWARD FINALIST*** ***THE GLOBE AND MAIL SUMMER'S HOTTEST READS*** 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.

    Subject(s): Bildungsromans | Fiction | General | Humorous | Literary | Satire
    Original Publisher: St. John's, Breakwater Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781550818086, 1550818082
    Collection(s)/Series: Atlantic Canadian | Atlantic Canadian: Read Atlantic 2021 | Leacock Medal 2021