The best laid plans : a novel / Terry Fallis.
Material type: TextSeries: Angus McLintock ; [1]Publication details: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, c2007.Description: xix, 314 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780771047589
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- Library spotlight: Canadian Authors
- Canada Reads Winner
- Winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, 2008 and Canada Reads 2011.
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Fiction | West Grey Durham Branch Shelves | Fiction | FIC FAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 32107000579925 |
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"A Douglas Gibson Book."
This book beat out work by Douglas Coupland and Will Ferguson because it is very, very good--a terrific Canadian political satire.
Here’s the set up: A burnt-out politcal aide quits just before an election--but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out. He makes a deal with a crusty old Scot, Angus McLintock--an engineering professor who will do anything, anything, to avoid teaching English to engineers--to let his name stand in the election. No need to campaign, certain to lose, and so on.
Then a great scandal blows away his opponent, and to their horror, Angus is elected. He decides to see what good an honest M.P. who doesn’t care about being re-elected can do in Parliament. The results are hilarious--and with chess, a hovercraft, and the love of a good woman thrown in, this very funny book has something for everyone.
Winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, 2008 and Canada Reads 2011.
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