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Longlisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor Award

Novelists: the soul of an age, definitely. significant? might be. but aren’t additionally they doddering, petulant, pedantic, knockkneed, skittish, and thunderingly insecure—resentful, awkward, annoying—demanding, deluded, and vexingly detached to truth? New from brief fiction devotée C.P. Boyko, Novelists is a comedy of manners (and manuscripts), rivalling self-importance reasonable for its satirical wit… even though now not, mercifully, for its length.


PRAISE FOR NOVELISTS

“Proudly, gloriously, gleefully out of date of their kind and settings, those principally comedian tales in regards to the worst characteristics of artists are extra critical than they first and foremost look: they depict the petty insecurities that gas each inventive act.”—Russell Smith

“If you're a basic individual, those tales, with their pitch-perfect satirical humour and their finely tuned sentences, will make you chortle out loud. while you're a author, first you are going to squirm with popularity whereas envying his notable vocabulary, his nimble grammar, and his startling imagery, after which you’ll giggle out loud.”—Diane Schoemperlen


PRAISE FOR C.P. BOYKO

“Readers will benefit from the author’s versatility, quirky (sometimes uproarious) humorousness, sardonic view of the area, and fruitful mind's eye … Libraries with any short-fiction readers can buy this ebook and preserve an eye fixed out for the subsequent one.”—Booklist, starred review

“Nothing in need of astonishing.”—The Walrus

“Keep your eye in this younger Canadian talent.”—Chatelaine

“Stunning … Boyko has an unstoppable imagination.”—The Globe & Mail

“Stealthy, seductive … a set that during some ways … will offer thought-fodder, let alone strong out of date excitement, for months.”— The Montreal Gazette

“Fans of satirical fiction will love this … impeccably researched and unflinchingly intelligent.” —The nationwide Post