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Fiction Literary

Shelf Monkey

by (author) Corey Redekop

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2007
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550227666
    Publish Date
    Apr 2007
    List Price
    $18.95
  • CD-Audio

    ISBN
    9781543662139
    Publish Date
    Oct 2017
    List Price
    $21.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781554902903
    Publish Date
    Apr 2007
    List Price
    $13.95

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Thomas Friesen has three goals in life. Get a job. Make friends. Find a good book to curl up with. After landing a job at READ, the newest hypermegabookstore, he feels he may have accomplished all three.

All is not peaceable within the stacks, however. Discontent is steadily rising, and it is aimed squarely at Munroe Purvis, a talk show host whose wildly popular book club is progressively lowering the I.Q. of North America.

But the bookworms have a plan. Plots are being hatched. The destruction of Munroe is all but assured. And as Thomas finds himself swept along in the maëlstrom of insanity, he wonders if reading a book is all it’s cracked up to be.

If you’ve ever thrown a book against a wall in disgust; if you’ve ever loved a novel that no one else can stand; if you obsess over the proper use of punctuation; this may be the novel for you. A weirdly funny story about bookish addictions, Shelf Monkey is the ideal novel for anyone who loves good books. Or hates them.

 

About the author

Corey Redekop’s debut novel Shelf Monkey (ECW Press, 2007) was awarded the Gold Medal for Popular Fiction at the Independent Publisher Book Awards. His second novel Husk (ECW Press, 2012) was named one of the best books of 2012 by Amazon.ca. Currently a publicist for Goose Lane Editions, he bides his time in Fredericton, NB.

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