The Secret Lives of Litterbugs
and Other (True) Stories
- Publisher
- Key Porter Books
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2009
- Category
- Marriage & Family, Essays
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554701599
- Publish Date
- Apr 2009
- List Price
- $17.95
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Description
In this hilarious, affecting collection of personal essays, M.A.C. Farrant tackles the absurdities of family life from both sides of the generational divide: as a young girl growing up in a dysfunctional, cobbled-together family in the 1960s, and as a mother herself to three willful teenagers. The pieces are funny and sharp, completely original while describing an utterly familiar world. Combining David Sedaris? self-deprecation and deep sense of the absurd with Erma Bombeck's skewering of domestic life, Farrant has a gift for making those observations that would be harrowing, if they weren?t so funny.
About the author
Born in Sydney, Australia and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, M.A.C. Farrant is the acclaimed author of nine previous collections of satirical and humourous short fiction, and two works of non-fiction. Her writing has been widely anthologized in North America and has been dramatized for television; Farrant is also a frequent contributor to leading magazines such as Adbusters and Geist. Her 2004 memoir, My Turquoise Years, is being adapted into a stage play in conjunction with the Arts Club Theatre of Vancouver; production is slated for the 2011/12 season.
Farrant has taught fiction workshops in Canada and Australia. She was a visiting writer-in-residence at Macquarie University in Sydney. A full-time writer currently residing in North Saanich, B.C., she has also taught part-time at the creative writing department in the University of Victoria and reviews books for the Vancouver Sun and the Globe & Mail.
Farrant’s work is infused with acerbic wit and iconoclastic innovation. As the Globe & Mail has noted, “Farrant is better at startling us with unnerving, often misanthropic visions of everyday life than perhaps any other Canadian writer”.
BC Bookworld has called her “Canada’s most acerbic and intelligent humourist.”
Other titles by
My Turquoise Years
A Memoir, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Jigsaw
A Puzzle in Ninety-Three Pieces
One Good Thing
A Living Memoir
The Great Happiness
Stories and Comics
The Days
Forecasts, Warnings, Advice
The World Afloat
The Strange Truth About Us
Down the Road to Eternity
New & Selected Fiction
The Breakdown So Far
