{"product_id":"9780889713192","title":"Wigford Rememberies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"a great writer\" -Daniel Lanois\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"one of the finest songwriters on the planet... his lyrics [are] every bit as powerful as the best Dylan, Cohen and Lennon combined.\" -Ron Sexsmith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"a national treasure\" -Michael Barclay, \u003cem\u003eExclaim\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"he's a stone genius\" -CBC\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kyp Harness scrapes at the backdrop of reality to reveal the tired, the broken, the lost and desolate, imbuing their agony with a fine and desperate dignity and allowing the reader to be swept along as well.\"\u003cbr\u003e -Mike Blouin, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eChase and Haven \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kyp Harness' prose has a unique flow: word and action, thought and thing are all contiguous and combined in lovely braided sentences. There's some Joyce splashed around Wigford, a satisfying read. This is a fantastic book, please just read it.\" -Tony Burgess, author of Idaho Winter, finalist for the Trillium Award and author of \u003cem\u003ePontypool Changes Everything\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWigford is a small town in rural Southwestern Ontario, home to a cast of recurring characters: Buzz, a drunk-driving father of two; his wife, who should have married Bert Walmsley instead; Happy Henry, a devout, socially inept apostle who loves to play the organ; Elmer, a stroke survivor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWigford Rememberies\u003c\/em\u003e tells this community's stories through an impressionistic series of vignettes. The language is inventive, innovative and exciting, and whether describing mucking out the pig barn--\"there in the dust and the sweet smells of grain and straw and the heavy brown odour of shit so strong it makes you sneeze\"--or helping a drunk articulate how to manipulate God's forgiveness--\"'if I gave my heart to Jesus--right there on my deathbed the minute before I died--he'd forgive everything an I'd go up into Heaven and be saved just as much as the other guy who never did nothin' wrong at all with no difference?'\"--Harness wields words with an eye for detail, musicality and style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVisceral, reflective and lyrical, \u003cem\u003eWigford Rememberies\u003c\/em\u003e is a poetic evocation of mood and epiphanic realizations, and will resonate with anyone who has ever confronted suffering, love or the unknowable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightwood Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022817607920,"sku":"9780889713192","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889713192_p0.jpg?v=1772498650","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889713192","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}