The Flush of Victory: Jack Bottomly Among the Virgins

by Ray Smith

Overview

Author Ray Smith has correlated the recent electronic version of the Dubai Typescript and travelled the world corroborating the sordid and highly sensitive details contained within this novel. A lurid tale of murder, buggery and embezzlement, Ray Smith has created in Jack Bottomly perhaps the most despicable anti-hero in Canadian Literature. Sensitive readers (ie: you snivelling politically-correct pansies): be warned.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781897231753
Publisher:	Biblioasis
Publication date:	05/15/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	832 KB

About the Author

Ray Smith: A native of Mabou, Cape Breton, to which he has returned, Ray Smith lived in Montreal for forty years, where he taught English literature at Dawson College. He is the author of, among others, A Night at the Opera (winner of the 1992 Qspell Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction), Cape Breton is the Thought-Control Centre of Canada, and Century, all published by Biblioasis.

Editorial Reviews

"An entertaining and shamelessly obstreperous romp that holds nothing sacred."—Good Reports

"For all the surface sheen to the picaresque, a dark, Swiftian distaste for the human animal runs beneath. The difficulty of assigning obvious targets to the book's deeper impulses keeps the reader off-balance, never quite sure where to laugh and where to wince."—Globe and Mail

"The only thing that can ever be safely stated about Smith is that he is among the country’s best yet under-appreciated writers — a novelist and satirist of the first order whose witty and irreverent prose have surfaced once again in a brand new novel, The Flush of Victory"—Westmount Examiner

"An entertaining and shamelessly obstreperous romp that holds nothing sacred."—Good Reports

"For all the surface sheen to the picaresque, a dark, Swiftian distaste for the human animal runs beneath. The difficulty of assigning obvious targets to the book's deeper impulses keeps the reader off-balance, never quite sure where to laugh and where to wince."—Globe and Mail

"The only thing that can ever be safely stated about Smith is that he is among the country’s best yet under-appreciated writers — a novelist and satirist of the first order whose witty and irreverent prose have surfaced once again in a brand new novel, The Flush of Victory"—Westmount Examiner

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