{"product_id":"falling-hour-9781552454466","title":"Falling Hour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eIn Falling Hour, a 31-year-old clerical worker experiences a mental breakdown in an empty public park, exploring themes of nosiness, quantum immortality, and the nature of thinking. The novel is anchored by quotations from Keats, Irish rebel songs, and Scottish folk ballads, creating a unique and captivating exploration of a \"fake\" country. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 224 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 23 March 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 30 CANADIAN BOOKS TO READ IN 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll talk, no action: The Mezzanine meets Ducks, Newburyport in this meandering and captivating debut\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts a hot summer night, and Hugh Dalgarno, a 31-year-old clerical worker, thinks his brain is broken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of a day and night in an uncannily depopulated public park, he will sift through the pieces and traverse the baroque landscape of his own thoughts:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe theology of nosiness, the beauty of the arbutus tree, the pathos of Gene Hackman, the theory of quantum immortality, Louis Riels letter to an Irish newspaper, the baleful influence of Calvinism on the Scottish working class, the sea, the CIA, and, ultimately, thinking itself and how it may be represented in writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is a strange, meandering sojourn, as if the history-haunted landscapes of W. G. Sebalds The Rings of Saturn were shrunk down to a mere 85 acres.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese digressions are anchored by remarks from the letters of Keats, by snatches of lyrics from Irish rebel songs and Scottish folk ballads, and, above all else, by the world-shattering call of the red-winged blackbird.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the first page to the last, I felt wholly captivated by Falling Hour and Hughs sensitive and far-ranging digressions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorrison has captured the magic of Sebald and made it entirely his own, a curiously anti-capitalist exploration of what it means to live in a \"fake\" country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e– André Babyn, author of Evie of the Deepthorn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFalling Hour is a profound incantatory exhalation - a quiet triumph; to read it is to engage in a smart, humane and at times very funny conversation that you will never want to end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e– Simon Okotie, author of Af.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 368g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 215 x 140 x 20 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781552454466\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Geoffrey Morrison","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44133498683642,"sku":"9781552454466","price":10.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1679659638078_book.jpg?v=1680102066","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/falling-hour-9781552454466","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}