The Last of the Crazy People
- Publisher
- Penguin Group Canada
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2008
- Category
- Family Life, Coming of Age, Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780143055051
- Publish Date
- Jul 2008
- List Price
- $19.00
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Description
While other 11-year-old boys are preoccupied with things like hockey, television and having fun, Hooker broods about his dysfunctional home-life. With a mother who refuses to leave her room, a brother in an alcoholic haze and a father who's unable to hold things together, Hooker's world is one of bewilderment and conflict. Feeling alone and unhappy, the young boy seeks to put an end to all of the confusion in The Last of the Crazy People, Timothy Findley's astonishing debut novel.
About the authors
Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada's most compelling and best-loved writers. He is the author of The Wars, which won the Governor General's Award and established him as one of Canada's leading writers, as well as Pilgrim and The Piano Man's Daughter, both finalists for The Giller Prize. His other novels, Headhunter, The Telling Of Lies, The Last Of The Crazy People, The Butterfly Plague, Famous Last Words, Not Wanted On The Voyage, and Spadework; his novella, You Went Away; and his short fiction, Dinner Along The Amazon, Stones, and Dust To Dust, have won numerous awards and are well loved both in Canada and internationally.
Elizabeth Rex won the Governor General's Award for Drama and The Stillborn Lover won a Chalmers Award. His works of non-fiction include Inside Memory and From Stone Orchard.
Timothy Findley was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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Marilyn Bowering has had two previous volumes of poetry nominated for the Governor General's Award: Autobiography and The Sunday Before Winter. The former also won the Pat Lowther Award. Her novel Visible Worlds received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize. Bowering is also the author of Human Bodies: New and Selected Poems and the novel To All Appearances A Lady. She lives in Sooke, British Columbia.
Editorial Reviews
"[A] most affecting account of the world which closes in on Hooker Winslow during his eleventh summer. . . . The writing, clear and clean, is close to the bone." —Kirkus Reviews
"A stark and horrifying book that denotes a young writer of talent." —Publishers Weekly
"Findley is very gifted, sure of himself, and light on his feet. The dialogue is uncannily accurate and the passion burns with an ominous, tragic glow from start to finish. . . . Stunningly vivid." —R. V. Cassill, author and literary critic
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The Wars
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Spadework
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Pilgrim
The Piano Man's Daughter
Modern Classics Dinner Along the Amazon
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