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Wayne Johnston Human Amusements
"Random House of Canada, Limited" 2002 0676974597 / 9780676974591 Paperback Very Good
"'() Human Amusements is the most eccentric of Wayne Johnston's novels, and it is a book that will likely surprise readers of his best-known work, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. Rather than dwelling at length on approved Big Historical Issues, Johnston turns his consistently original sense of humour to satire and pop culture, resulting in a tale that is both thought-provoking and deliciously glib. The heart of this novel is the hapless Prendergast family, an ill-starred trio who initially seem like the cast of an early, slightly twisted sitcom. Audrey and Peter Prendergast are substitute teachers, barely scraping by in the stolid Toronto of the late '50s. Peter wants to become a ''serious novelist,'' while Audrey is a devoted writer of rejected television scripts. When Audrey's proposal for Rumpus Room, a children's program, makes it on air, she becomes an instant star--as does her son, Henry, who is cast as Bee Good/Bee Bad, the show's exemplary animal characters. Fame and family'''' ID: mon0000077750"
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Wayne Johnston Human Amusements
"Random House of Canada, Limited" 2002 0676974597 / 9780676974591 Paperback Like New
"remainder marks() Human Amusements is the most eccentric of Wayne Johnston's novels, and it is a book that will likely surprise readers of his best-known work, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. Rather than dwelling at length on approved Big Historical Issues, Johnston turns his consistently original sense of humour to satire and pop culture, resulting in a tale that is both thought-provoking and deliciously glib. The heart of this novel is the hapless Prendergast family, an ill-starred trio who initially seem like the cast of an early, slightly twisted sitcom. Audrey and Peter Prendergast are substitute teachers, barely scraping by in the stolid Toronto of the late '50s. Peter wants to become a ID: mon0000129314"
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Wayne Johnston The Divine Ryans
Knopf Canada 1998 0676971849 / 9780676971842 Paperback Like New
"Paperback, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked. (Near Fine), no spine or cover creases, remainder mark.() Nine-year-old Draper Doyle Ryan, sole male heir to the once-venerable Ryan name, seems an unlikely family savior. Harried by his own frantic hormones, flustered by his many insufficiencies, and beset by a cadre of oppressive relatives, about the only defense he has is an endlessly inventive imagination. It's a fine line between coming-of-age sentimentality and gratuitous high jinks Wayne Johnston walks in his pleasing novel The Divine Ryans: the result--a snapshot of that twilight between childhood befuddlement and mature disillusionment--is unexpected and deft. Draper Doyle's life in Newfoundland, circa mid-1960s, is as constrained as it is colorful. Cooped up in one house with various family oddballs, he views the world from the bottom rungs of the ladder. Perpetually harangued by the frigid and imperious Aunt Phil (whose powers of humiliation reach their apex when she displays ID: mon0000061186"
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