Jack MacLeod's first two novels established him as that rarest of talents, a writer who can entertain while also grappling with ideas and social issues. Uproar, his new novel, is the story of a marriage in free fall, a career on the skids and the bewildering era we have only just recently survived. Included among the list of zany characters is `Zinger' -- that remarkable literary creation who first made an appearance in Zinger and Me (1979), and whom the actor Don Harron has called `one of the most memorable characters in Canadian literature'.
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`Uproar is a lovely book, funny, clever, and a vivid reflection of the times. Beneath the entertaining surface, MacLeod had created a classic comic plot which takes the hero down through a broken marriage, a disintegrating career and a too-close acquaintance with the bottle, but emerges at the end into the sunlight. A story that is full of people like us, mostly at our worst, but sometimes at our best. I found it hugely satisfying.' --Eric Wright
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`Uproar is a lovely book, funny, clever, and a vivid reflection of the times. Beneath the entertaining surface, MacLeod had created a classic comic plot which takes the hero down through a broken marriage, a disintegrating career and a too-close acquaintance with the bottle, but emerges at the end into the sunlight. A story that is full of people like us, mostly at our worst, but sometimes at our best. I found it hugely satisfying.'
(Eric Wright )
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Myrt Gold, Prince Albert, Sam Osbourne, Harold Innis, Gay Alliance, New York, Norbert Norton, Board of Governors, President Naugle, Bloor Street, Claudia Moldano, Burke College, Morley Snelgrove, Big Mac, Sir John, Code of Conduct, Pepper Pemberton, Teddy Kravnik, Chiliast University, Professor Gandy, Professor Pemberton, Hot Money, Martin Capon, John Newlove, Marie Rowan Browse Sample Pages:
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Myrt Gold, Prince Albert, Sam Osbourne, Harold Innis, Gay Alliance, New York, Norbert Norton, Board of Governors, President Naugle, Bloor Street, Claudia Moldano, Burke College, Morley Snelgrove, Big Mac, Sir John, Code of Conduct, Pepper Pemberton, Teddy Kravnik, Chiliast University, Professor Gandy, Professor Pemberton, Hot Money, Martin Capon, John Newlove, Marie Rowan Browse Sample Pages:
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