Description
I am from Halifax, salt-water city, a place of silted genius, sudden women, figures floating in all waters. "People from Halifax are all famous," my sister Faith has said. "Because everyone in Halifax knows each other's business."
From basement rec rooms to midnight railway tracks, Action Transfers to Smarties boxes crammed with joints, from Paul McCartney on the kitchen radio to their furious teenaged cover of The Ramones, Aubrey McKee and his familiars navigate late adolescence amidst the old-monied decadence of Halifax. An arcana of oddball angels, Alex Pugsley's long-awaited debut novel follows rich-kid drug dealers and junior tennis brats, migr heart surgeons and small-time thugs, renegade private school girls and runaway children as they try to make sense of the city into which they've been born. Part coming-of-age-story, part social chronicle, and part study of the myths that define our growing up, Aubrey McKee introduces a breathtakingly original new voice.
Author: Alex Pugsley
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 06/23/2020
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781771963114
ISBN10: 1771963115
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Small Town & Rural
- Fiction | Coming of Age
From basement rec rooms to midnight railway tracks, Action Transfers to Smarties boxes crammed with joints, from Paul McCartney on the kitchen radio to their furious teenaged cover of The Ramones, Aubrey McKee and his familiars navigate late adolescence amidst the old-monied decadence of Halifax. An arcana of oddball angels, Alex Pugsley's long-awaited debut novel follows rich-kid drug dealers and junior tennis brats, migr heart surgeons and small-time thugs, renegade private school girls and runaway children as they try to make sense of the city into which they've been born. Part coming-of-age-story, part social chronicle, and part study of the myths that define our growing up, Aubrey McKee introduces a breathtakingly original new voice.
Author: Alex Pugsley
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 06/23/2020
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781771963114
ISBN10: 1771963115
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Small Town & Rural
- Fiction | Coming of Age
About the Author
Alex Pugsley is a writer and filmmaker originally from Nova Scotia. He is the co-author of the novel Kay Darling. A winner of multiple awards, including the Journey Prize, his fiction has appeared in Brick, The Walrus, and McSweeney's, among other publications, and for the last two years in Best Canadian Stories. As a screenwriter or story editor, he's worked on over 170 episodes of television, writing for performers such as Dan Aykroyd, Mark McKinney, and Michael Cera. Recently he wrote and directed the film Dirty Singles, which was nominated for Best Canadian Feature at the Vancouver International Film Festival and is available now on iTunes.