Protagonist is a disgraced hockey player who acknowledges and discusses the negative side of the professional hockey world and how it changed him, including the violence, drugs, and brain damage Novel also explores other themes, including drug cartels, rattlesnake farming, small-town living, and family Protagonist is a Canadian playing hockey in the States Author has two previous novels, and his writing has been compared to John Irving The title refers to a travelling game that the protagonist...
What’s in a name? Personal misfortune, or so it would appear if your name happens to be «Flam Grub.» This touching contemporary novel shows how our lives are entwined with our names and how our destinies are never certain. Full of humour and sadness, quirky wit, and quiet moments of beauty, Flam Grub tells the tale of a young man’s misadventures and his retreat to the security of reading books, work in a bookstore, and a career as an undertaker until fame unexpectedly comes his way. Both an...
Desperately fleeing for his life, Brad Evans escapes Manhattan and hides in a trailer in the country. There he writes an expos of Phasmatia, the world’s first great Internet religion, and its megalomaniacal unholy messiah, Sky Fisher. As one of the trio of ad men who schemed to concoct Phasmatia, Evans certainly knows where all the skeletons are buried, and is ready to tellprovided he manages to live long enough. His close friend and co-conspirator, Stan Shiu, whose technical genius helped...
