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Coureurs de bois

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Coureurs de bois

by Bruce MacDonald

CORMORANT BOOKS | August 4, 2006 | Trade Paperback

With this, his first novel, Bruce MacDonald juggles the themes of economics, love, religion, spirituality, and self-delusion with the balance, dexterity, and mastery of an old hand from Cirque du Soleil. Smart, funny, and profoundly seditious, Coureurs de Bois is an exhilarating and satiric tour-de-force an eloquent, insightful, and contemporary novel that counterpoints iconoclastic acerbic wit with honest compassion and seduces with its compelling and provocative characters, scathing societal critique, and a playfully applied sense of mysticism. Coureurs de Bois recounts the impudent odyssey of William Tobe, an Ottawa-born economics grad, who moves to Toronto and falls under the spell of the recently paroled Randall Cobb Seymour. "The Cobb" is a vengefully shrewd and charismatic Native Canadian part Mohawk, part Ojibway the embodiment of the trickster and a powerfully animated personality of cunning, gall, and uninhibited entrepreneurial instincts. He is hell-bent on beating the white man at his own dirty game and, in doing so, he masters what he calls "the Queen''s economy." Good-hearted Will not only becomes involved in Cobb''s scams, but finds himself swept up in his own evolving, urban vision quest.

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With this, his first novel, Bruce MacDonald juggles the themes of economics, love, religion, spirituality, and self-delusion with the balance, dexterity, and mastery of an old hand from Cirque du Soleil. Smart, funny, and profoundly seditious, Coureurs de Bois is an exhilarating and satiric tour-de-force an eloquent, insightful, and contemporary novel that counterpoints iconoclastic acerbic wit with honest compassion and seduces with its compelling and provocative characters, scathing societal critique, and a playfully applied sense of mysticism. Coureurs de Bois recounts the impudent odyssey of William Tobe, an Ottawa-born economics grad, who moves to Toronto and falls under the spell of the recently paroled Randall Cobb Seymour. "The Cobb" is a vengefully shrewd and charismatic Native Canadian part Mohawk, part Ojibway the embodiment of the trickster and a powerfully animated personality of cunning, gall, and uninhibited entrepreneurial instincts. He is hell-bent on beating the white man at his own dirty game and, in doing so, he masters what he calls "the Queen''s economy." Good-hearted Will not only becomes involved in Cobb''s scams, but finds himself swept up in his own evolving, urban vision quest.

About the Author

Bruce MacDonald is a graduate of the journalism program at Toronto''s Ryerson University. He grew up in Ottawa, and has lived in Vancouver and Taiwan. Currently, he lives in Toronto, where he works as a technical writer.

Bruce MacDonald is a graduate of the journalism program at Toronto''s Ryerson University. He grew up in Ottawa, and has lived in Vancouver and Taiwan. Currently, he lives in Toronto, where he works as a technical writer.

Trade Paperback

300 Pages, 5.58 x 8.48 x 0.7 in

August 4, 2006

CORMORANT BOOKS

English


1896951724
9781896951720

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"Coureurs de Bois is an energetic, quirky novel of ideas."
"Coureurs de Bois is loads of fun…. I sense that he had great fun writing this novel, and it shows."
-The Vancouver Sun

"Coureurs de Bois is nothing if not fun.", "The writing is crisp, the plotting as simple and subversive as a pack of cigarettes and the whole thing is just smart and seditious."
-The Sun Times

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