Homer in Flight

by Rabindranath Maharaj

Overview

Hilarious and poignant, Homer in Flight draws a brilliant picture of a chronic malcontent roving from high-rise to housing development along the 401 and the QEW. Homer remains utterly displaced, not because of what other people do or don't do, but because he lives in his imagination instead of embracing an imperfect but fairly benign reality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780864922205
Publisher:	Goose Lane Editions
Publication date:	04/01/1997
Edition description:	First edition
Pages:	323
Product dimensions:	5.63(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

Rabindranath Maharaj, a Trinidadian teacher and journalist, wrote several of the stories in the Interloper during the year he spent in Fredericton. He now writes and teaches in Toronto.

Editorial Reviews

"The beginning of something quite new in the literature of journeys and arrivals."

Trinidad Guardian - Kenneth Ramchaud

"His hope is infectious; his skill is a pleasure . . . a real awakening."

Books in Canada

"A remarkable achievement . . . Maharaj's characters are vivid and entertaining; Dickensian, in a word."

Toronto Star

"The effect is like laughing while you're bleeding to death."

Vancouver Sun

"A novel of many pleasures . . . A talented and confident writer who has produced a work of unsparing vision and compassion that stays true to the people who inhabit it . . . A rivetting portrait of the immigrant tragedy."

The Globe and Mail

"Intelligent, ironic and emotionally honest."

Blood & Aphorisms

"A novel of many pleasures . . . A talented and confident writer who has produced a work of unsparing vision and compassion that stays true to the people who inhabit it . . . A rivetting portrait of the immigrant tragedy."

Globe and Mail

"The beginning of something quite new in the literature of journeys and arrivals."

"Intelligent, ironic and emotionally honest."

"His hope is infectious; his skill is a pleasure . . . a real awakening."

"A novel of many pleasures . . . A talented and confident writer who has produced a work of unsparing vision and compassion that stays true to the people who inhabit it . . . A rivetting portrait of the immigrant tragedy."

"A remarkable achievement . . . Maharaj's characters are vivid and entertaining; Dickensian, in a word."

"The effect is like laughing while you're bleeding to death."

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