Canned lit: (Parodies Regained, Then Frozen, and Thawed)

Canned lit: (Parodies Regained, Then Frozen, and Thawed)

by Gould, Allan, Pilsworth, Graham (Ilt)

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Allan Gould has just become the bad boy of the Can Lit scene with this wonderfully brazen and hilariously pointed examination of Canada's literary establishment.

The man whom many critics call our finest satirist and who last ruffled feathers with his stinging attack on Canada's bureaucracy in The Great Wiped Out North has taken full aim at our fabled practitioners of belles lettres.

The result is more than 100 irreverent biographies of Canadian authors and parodies of their works.

Sample Gould on Margaret Atwood, who spent much of her youth with her biologist father in a log cabin in northern Quebec:

"There she experienced firsthand the difficulty of survival and the terrors of the bush. Her father's specialty was insects, which in his daughter's hands evolved into her own expertise: Minuscule men."

Gould doesn't stop there. In fact, he spares no one, with stabs at such well-know writers as Northrop Frye, Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler and a host of others.

Spiced with the provocative drawings of Graham Pilsworth, Gould's book leads you on a merry assault on the Canadian literary psyche.
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