Homer in Flight

Par (auteur) Rabindranath Maharaj
Catégories: Littérature générale, Littérature et ouvrages de fiction
Éditeur: Goose Lane Editions
Paperback : 9780864922205, 323 pages, Avril 1997

La description

Hilarious and poignant, Homer in Flight draws a brilliant picture of a chronic malcontent roving from high-rise to housing development along the 401 and the QEW. Homer remains utterly displaced, not because of what other people do or don’t do, but because he lives in his imagination instead of embracing an imperfect but fairly benign reality.

Reviews

"Run, you little bitch, run. You could run as far as you want, you can' escape." His uncle's words ring in Homer Santokie's ears as his plane gains altitude and Trinidad falls away below. He has escaped. His destination: Toronto. Homer trades a basement in Ajax for a Dixie high rise, a factory job for a position as a Hamilton school librarian. Marrying Vashti and moving into her sister's house in Burlington, becoming a father, publishing his book — these successes should win Homer peace and security. But he craves more.

Hilarious and poignant, Homer in Flight draws a brilliant picture of a man evading one imaginary crisis after another. Homer veers from bravery to bravado, from jollity to gut-wrenching anxiety and confusion. Articulate and annoyed, he wrestles mightily with the benign reality of his new life.

"The effect is like laughing while you're bleeding to death."

"The beginning of something quite new in the literature of journeys and arrivals."

"Intelligent, ironic and emotionally honest."

"A novel of many pleasures . . . A talented and confident writer who has produced a work of unsparing vision and compassion that stays true to the people who inhabit it . . . A rivetting portrait of the immigrant tragedy."

"His hope is infectious; his skill is a pleasure . . . a real awakening."

"His hope is infectious; his skill is a pleasure . . . a real awakening."

- <i>Books in Canada</i>

"A novel of many pleasures . . . A talented and confident writer who has produced a work of unsparing vision and compassion that stays true to the people who inhabit it . . . A rivetting portrait of the immigrant tragedy."

- <i>Globe and Mail</i>

"The effect is like laughing while you're bleeding to death."

- <i>Vancouver Sun</i>

"Intelligent, ironic and emotionally honest."

- <i>Blood & Aphorisms</i>

"A remarkable achievement . . . Maharaj's characters are vivid and entertaining; Dickensian, in a word."

"The beginning of something quite new in the literature of journeys and arrivals."

- Kenneth Ramchaud

"A remarkable achievement . . . Maharaj's characters are vivid and entertaining; Dickensian, in a word."

- <i>Toronto Star</i>