{"product_id":"9781552454466","title":"Falling Hour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 30 CANADIAN BOOKS TO READ IN 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll talk, no action: \u003ci\u003eThe Mezzanine\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eDucks, Newburyport\u003c\/i\u003e in this meandering and captivating debut\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s a hot summer night, and Hugh Dalgarno, a 31-year-old clerical worker, thinks his brain is broken. Over the course of a day and night in an uncannily depopulated public park, he will sift through the pieces and traverse the baroque landscape of his own thoughts: the theology of nosiness, the beauty of the arbutus tree, the pathos of Gene Hackman, the theory of quantum immortality, Louis Riel’s letter to an Irish newspaper, the baleful influence of Calvinism on the Scottish working class, the sea, the CIA, and, ultimately, thinking itself and how it may be represented in writing. The result is a strange, meandering sojourn, as if the history-haunted landscapes of W. G. Sebald’s \u003cem\u003eThe Rings of Saturn\u003c\/em\u003e were shrunk down to a mere 85 acres.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese digressions are anchored by remarks from the letters of Keats, by snatches of lyrics from Irish rebel songs and Scottish folk ballads, and, above all else, by the world-shattering call of the red-winged blackbird.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the first page to the last I felt wholly captivated by \u003cem\u003eFalling Hour\u003c\/em\u003e and Hugh’s sensitive and far-ranging digressions. Morrison has captured the magic of Sebald and made it entirely his own, a curiously anti-capitalist exploration of what it means to live in a “fake” country. \" – \u003cb\u003eAndré Babyn, author of \u003cem\u003eEvie of the Deepthorn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFalling Hour\u003c\/em\u003e is a profound incantatory exhalation – a quiet triumph; to read it is to engage in a smart, humane and at times very funny conversation that you will never want to end.\" – \u003cb\u003eSimon Okotie, author of \u003cem\u003eAfter Absalon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A stellar debut novel by a stellar new talent. Falling Hour is written in a prose style that enlivens every page.” – \u003cb\u003eMauro Javier Cárdenas, author of \u003cem\u003eAphasia: A Novel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eFalling Hour,\u003c\/em\u003e an immensity is condensed into a single day, a single park, a single empty frame. To themes of loss and dispossession that recall in scope and sensitivity the work of Teju Cole and W.G. Sebald, Morrison brings the attentive eye of a poet and a truly impish sense of the absurd.\" – \u003cb\u003eJen Craig, author of \u003cem\u003ePanthers and the Museum of Fire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\"Falling Hour\u003c\/i\u003e deserves mention as a notable debut along the estuary of modern fiction.\" – \u003cb\u003eD. W. White, Atticus Books, Phoenix, AZ\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Geoffrey Morrison (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":43054005256259,"sku":"9781552454466","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/3523\/2323\/files\/BNCImageAPI_48cce263-3a49-42f9-a5cd-8f9870275eb2.jpg?v=1774039164","url":"https:\/\/thebookshop613.ca\/products\/9781552454466","provider":"The Bookshop 613","version":"1.0","type":"link"}