First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women [Mass Market Paperback]

Eric McCormack (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 25, 2003

First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women is the story of Andrew Halfnight, whose life-part dream, part nightmare-begins with a mother's tragic choice and ends with a lover's understanding. In between he experiences tempests at sea, relatives who kill for love and lovers who sacrifice their bodies, all the while unknowingly moving ever closer to the central mystery of his, and all existence.

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About the Author

Eric McCormack was born in a small village in Scotland. He moved to Canada in 1966 and attended the University of Manitoba. Since 1970 he has taught English at St. Jerome's College, Waterloo, Ontario specializing in 17th Century and contemporary literature. This book was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Fiction.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Global; First Edition edition (November 25, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140266836
• ISBN-13: 978-0140266832
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,023,698 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book by a very gifted writer, July 14, 2010

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This review is from: First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (Mass Market Paperback)

I love all of the books that Eric McCormack has written, including this one, and I intend to review them all on Wikipedia, since I see that his books are very much under-reviewed. Here Eric re-imagines a young Scottish man leaving the Scottish mining towns after family tragedies have made him an orphan, going off to cross the world like Gorden Pym before ending up back in "Camberloo" (a cross of Cambridge and Waterloo, the town in Canada where McCormack teaches English Literature) where he enjoys a strange addicted lifestyle of increasing girth and incessant loneliness, never really losing the demons of the past - until they, finally, lose him.

This book follows the usual McCormack tropes of voyage, loneliness, addiction, seafaring, strangers that drift in and out of the story, odd habits (painting prostitutes to look like snake-women), and uncertainties to paint a strongly alluring picture of a habitual paradise.

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