First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women [Hardcover]

Eric McCormack (Author)

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• Hardcover
• Publisher: Viking (1997)
• ASIN: B000O2FGEY
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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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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