Crow / Amy Spurway.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions, [2019]Description: 305 pagesContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781773100234 (softcover)
- FIC Spurw 23
- Issued also in electronic formats.
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| BOOK | Meaford Public Library Fiction | Fiction | FIC Spurw (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 19114 |
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| FIC Spenc One bright Christmas / | FIC Spind The other girl / | FIC Spind The look-alike / | FIC Spurw Crow / | FIC St Jam The Sun Down Motel / | FIC Stach The chosen maiden / | FIC Stach The school of mirrors : a novel / |
"When Stacey Fortune is diagnosed with three highly unpredictable - and inoperable - brain tumours, she abandons the crumbling glamour of her life in Toronto for her mother Effie's scruffy trailer in rural Cape Breton. Back home, she's known as Crow, and everybody suspects that her family is cursed. With her future all but sealed, Crow decides to go down in a blaze of unforgettable glory by writing a memoir that will raise eyebrows and drop jaws. She'll dig up "the dirt" on her family tree, including the supposed curse, and uncover the truth about her mysterious father, who disappeared a month before she was born. But first, Crow must contend with an eclectic assortment of characters, including her gossipy Aunt Peggy, hedonistic party-pal Char, homebound best friend Allie, and high-school flame Willy. She'll also have to figure out how to live with her mother and how to muddle through the unsettling visual disturbances that are becoming more and more vivid each day. Witty, energetic, and crackling with sharp Cape Breton humour, Crow is a story of big twists, big personalities, big drama, and even bigger heart."-- Provided by publisher.
Issued also in electronic formats.
Patron comment on 01/25/2020
As Oscar Wilde said of Dickens’ novel ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’, “One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.” Cape Breton’s Amy Spurway seems to have felt the same way about the many dark and depressing novels CANLIT has developed a reputation for. So why not write and outlandishly tragic novel with all the hallmarks of the most depressing CANLIT, but make it funny. This is what she has done and she has done in spades. This is story of a terminally-ill, thirty-something single woman who packs up her Toronto career and life to return home to her mother on Cape Breton and the broken past she had once thought she had left forever. The novel is full of black humor, witty prose, cynical social commentary and uninhibited misery, but, nevertheless, retains a certain elegance and pathos along with a literary soundness. Like Dickens, Spurway’s over-the top characters have a credible basis, and I think many readers will find there is a truthful sympathy in the daughter’s fraught relationship with her crusty, life-hardened, cleaning-lady mother. From the spirit-animal title of ‘Crow’ to the ‘pigs-might-fly’ credibility of the denouement Amy Spurway squeezes in just about as many depressing CANLIT elements possible in a hugely entertaining novel. This is her first novel. Hopefully, she will see it receive literary prizes and international recognition I think it deserves.