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Description
Finalist, ReLit Award
Amazon.ca's 50 Essential Canadian Books selection
First published in 1997 to much critical acclaim, Salvage King, Ya! is a novel firmly rooted in Canada's favourite national pastime - hockey. Critics have called Salvage King, Ya! "the great Canadian novel," and a "postmodern Canadian classic." Drinkwater, Jarman's narrator, is the "heir reluctant" of the family business (the salvage company of the book's title) and an aspiring NHL defenceman. His life hurtles between the hockey rink, the junkyard, the road, and the three women in his life: The Intended, the mesmerizing Waitress X, and ex-wife Kathy.
An Everyman, Drinkwater is approaching mid-life acutely aware of the choices and options available to him - and the ones that are slowly slipping from his reach. Fast-paced, raucous and kinetically charged, Salvage, King, Ya! is a hockey novel bursting with dynamism and originality. This is the "breakthrough" novel from the author of the short story collections 19 Knives, New Orleans Is Sinking, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern, and the memoir Ireland's Eye. Salvage King, Ya! is a roving, luminous, rowdy, and funny novel.
Praise for Salvage King, Ya!:
"if it's the best hockey book ever written, does that make it The Great Canadian Novel?" (The Danforth Review)
"a brilliant work . . . a postmodern Canadian classic" (National Post)
"a wonderfully fierce and funny book . . . imagine Hunter S. Thompson on hockey skates" (Vancouver Sun)
Contributor Notes
A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Fellow at Yaddo artists' colony in New York, Mark Jarman's work has appeared in virtually every Canadian literary journal out there. Publication credits include 'Queen's Quarterly', 'Prism International', 'subTerrain', 'Hawaii Review', 'Prairie Fire', and 'Quarterly West' (Univ. of Utah). Other books include the memoir 'Ireland's Eye', the short story collections 'Dancing Nightly In the Tavern' (Alberta Writers' Guild Award for Best Fiction), 'New Orleans is Sinking', and '19 Knives', and a collection of poetry, 'Killing The Swan'. Mr. Jarman also edited a book of alcohol related stories, 'An Ounce Of Cure'.
