Dirty birds / Morgan Murray.
Dirty birds / Morgan Murray.
By
:
Murray, Morgan.
Publication Date
:
2020
Publication Information
:
St. John's, N.L. : Breakwater books,
Physical Description
:
517 p.
Subject Term
:
Coming of age -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Humorous fiction.
Summary
:
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.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781550818079
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Carbonear | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |
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Gander | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |
Glovertown | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |
Grand Falls-Windsor - Harmsworth | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |
Happy Valley - Goose Bay - Melville | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |
Holyrood | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |
Labrador City | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |
Lewisporte | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |
Mount Pearl - Ross King Memorial Public Library | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |
Pouch Cove | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |
Springdale | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Fic NL Ref - Cons Rm | Adult Fiction NL Reference - Conservation Room | FIC MUR |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Fic NL Ref - Prov Coll | Adult Fiction NL Reference Provincial Collection | FIC MUR |
St. John's - Marjorie Mews | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |
St. John's - Michael Donovan | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |
Stephenville - Kindale | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |
Torbay | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |
Twillingate | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |
Woody Point | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC MUR |