Sunday, September 23, 2012
Celebrating 11 Years in our Community!
Trevor Cole
Trevor Cole was lauded in a recent Globe and Mail review as “one of the best young novelists in this country.” He has written two novels – Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life (2004), and The Fearsome Particles (2006) – both of which, in a rare event, were short-listed for the Governor-General’s Award for Literature and long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Norman Bray was also short-listed for the regional Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book, and each of his novels has been adapted for radio and optioned for film. Recently, The Fearsome Particles was added to the syllabus of a Canadian literature course at Whitman College in Washington, taught alongside works by Michael Ondaatje, Tomson Highway, Alice Munro and Carol Shields. And in the spring of 2008, Cole will be the Edna Staebler Writer in Residence at the Kitchener Public Library
Books
Practical Jean
This eagerly awaited new novel from Trevor Cole combines the humour and sharp observations of contemporary life that he is known for with an irresistibly twisted premise, for fans of the quirkily macabre Six Feet Under and Dexter, and readers of Paul Quarrington, Miriam Toews, Jonathan Franzen, and, of course, Trevor Cole.
In his first two, GG-shortlisted novels, Trevor Cole proved himself a master of drawing us into the shadowy side of human nature with sharp observation and warm wit. In Practical Jean, he goes a step further: this is a darkly humourous and revelatory tale of an ordinary, small-town woman with the usual challenges of middle age — a do-nothing husband, a family that refuses to understand her — who realizes her fondest wish is to protect her dearest friends from the indignities of aging and illness. And that's when she decides to kill them...
