Last Resort : A Memoir [Hardcover]

Linwood BARCLAY (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc. (2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0771010788
• ISBN-13: 978-0771010781
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,018,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Linwood Barclay is a former columnist for The Toronto Star and the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including Too Close to Home and No Time for Goodbye, a #1 Sunday Times (UK) bestseller. He lives near Toronto with his wife.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious, with a bite, February 23, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Last Resort: A Memoir (Paperback)

Linwood Barclay, one of the funniest writers in Canada, has written a memoir of his youth that will have every reader saying, "Yeah, I always wondered who owned those holiday fishing camp things on Lake Wishamagog." The Barclays did.
But in this memoir, Barclay has done something much more ambitious than make the reader laugh with recognition on each page. He has what the humorist Joey Slinger calls "meatloaf memories", recalling the things that weren't so funny like a father's death and a mother's insane expectation that her son will remain in a parallel version of her world.
I used to think funny was the hardest writing to carry off, but funny and painful is actually worse. The Camp Wishamagogs I drive by on the highway now radiate powerful emotions at me as I pass.
If you're not into anguish, there's a lot of outhouse maintenance information in here for Red Green types.
A beautifully handled memoir.

1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Linwood, this one's for you, February 23, 2004

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Dorkface Petunia (Boston, MA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Last Resort: A Memoir (Paperback)

Barclay has finally revealed his long buried genius in this masterpiece. I've been reading the Toronto Star for years and never actually found anything he said very funny, but this book defied all my expectations with its brilliant gems of sparkling Linwoodisms. Now if I had actually read the book maybe you should listen to me. Really I'm just writing this so he stops complaining in print that nobody's reviewed him.