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list price: $19.95
edition:Paperback
category: Fiction
published: Apr 2018
ISBN:9780889713413
publisher:
Nightwood Editions
Description
A genre-bending retelling of The Odyssey, Army of the Brave and Accidental is a modern fable: a story about relationships, parenthood, and trying to have an impact on the world told from the shifting perspectives of ten characters. A hundred years after James Joyce stitched together a version of the epic tale, Canadian writer and essayist Alex Boyd updates the story as a reflection of Canadian twenty-first-century culture, allowing it to take a radically different cultural snapshot. These reimaginings newly create and colour a contemporary view of modern love without compromising any of the pitfalls or exaltations.
Army of the Brave and Accidental is funny, deft, wise and poetic all at once. The epic spans major cities such as Toronto and New York and is a coming-of-age story, a journey, a love story and a tragi-comedy.
Awards
- Short-listed, ReLit Award for Novel
Editorial Review
“...timely, original and profound.”
— Alex Good, <i>CNQ Magazine</i>
