β Scribed by Gilmour, David
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A Globe and Mail Top 100 Books for 2011
Π²ΠΡ...a masterpiece of irony, subversive humour and astonishing self-mockery.... Gilmour handles his material with style and finesse, with a delicious sense of irony and with a creative jouissance. Here is a novel that gleams with intelligence,
humour and wickedly precise observation.Π²ΠΡ
(Globe and Mail )
Π²ΠΡ...The Perfect Order of Things is so easily read, it adds a level of accessibility to the genre the others canΠ²Πβ’t match.Π²ΠΡ (Toronto Star )
Π²ΠΡ...GilmourΠ²Πβ’s sensitive and cultivated nurturing of narrative provides a pleasure beyond words.Π²ΠΡ
(Edmonton Journal )
David Gilmour is a novelist who has earned critical praise from literary figures as diverse as William Burroughs and Northrop Frye, and from publications as different as the New York Times to People magazine. The author of six novels, he also hosted the award-winning Gilmour on the Arts. In 2005, his novel A Perfect Night to Go to China won the Governor GeneralΠ²Πβ’s Award for Fiction. His next book, The Film Club, was a finalist for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize. It became an international bestseller, and has sold over 200,000 copies in Germany and over 100,000 copies in Brazil. He lives in Toronto with his wife.
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