Some Great Thing
by Colin McAdam
1-55192-805-1
CDN $22.95 paper
1-55192-695-4
CDN $34.95 cloth
Raincoast
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“Some Great Thing is as smart, as wickedly funny, as unexpected and as good as a couple of the very best Giller Prize-winners.
Jerry McGuinty is as oddly endearing as Richler’s Barney Panofsky.”
—The Globe and Mail
“Appearing from nowhere, bursting with energy, here is a character-driven novel to reinvigorate Canadian fiction.”
—Noah Richler in the Walrus
“Tremendously accomplished ... What anchors it, what lends it its beautiful sense of endurance, is its deep emotional bedrock.” —Georgia Straight
“In an age where debuts are regularly lauded for cheap cynicism, here at last is one that feels like the real deal: a grown-up author with talent to burn.” —Daily Telegraph (U.K.)
“Bawdy humour and forceful, cartwheeling prose.”
—Publishers Weekly
“An extraordinary, powerful novel—technically ambitious, passionate and beautifully observed. Filled with the truth of human frailty, the mystery of craft and the stark bewilderment of love.” —A. L. Kennedy
“Some Great Thing is just about as fresh as it gets. Colin McAdam has taken a jackhammer to the modern novel and come up with something bright and strong and new.”
—Rupert Thomson, author of The Book of Revelation
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