Ronald Reagan, My Father
By Brian Joseph Davis
(ECW Press, Paperback, 9781550229172, 160pp.)
Publication Date: April 1, 2010
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook
Categories: Action & Adventure, Short Stories (single author)
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Startlingly original, these hilariously offbeat storylines blend vivid characters with bleakly comical plots that are both human and uncanny. Each memorable character—including the elderly who take to the streets at night for illegal and cathartic electric scooter racing, a copy editor who suffers brain damage from West Nile virus and is suddenly filled with cannibalistic violence and award-winning minimalist poetry, and Mayor McCheese who visits a sexually repressed British couple in the early 1970s and touches their lives forever—contributes to the collection's unique voice.
Brian Joseph Davis is an artist and the author of Portable Altamont and I, Tania, as well as the cofounder of Joyland.ca. He has written for Eye Weekly, the Globe and Mail, and Utne. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
"Serious hilarity." —Frieze magazine
"A kind of magnificence." —New York Press
"Smart on paper and fascinating in execution." —LA Weekly
"Credit Brian Joseph Davis with many things: a roomy imagination, big appetite for the absurd, healthy sense of humor, heightened sense for the telling detail, reference and setting (these are decidedly pop cultural), curiosity, and cleverness." —Telegraph-Journal
"Davis demonstrates real craft, combining humor with narrative development, humane warmth, and a convincing command of vernacular expression. . . . Ronald Reagan, My Father is hyper-satire intended for those who appreciate Davis's dark humor and share his cultural enthusiasms, which are equal parts populist and arcane. Fans of the edginess of Davis's previous work will find similar satisfaction in this slim volume." —Quill & Quire
"A darkly humourous collection of pop-cultural satires, experiments, jeremiads, and — gasp — conventional bouts of realist storytelling. This is an unabashed mash-up of style, subject and register, reaching unusual heights of narrative diversity." —Broken Pencil
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