- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: Insomniac Press (May 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1895837049
- ISBN-13: 978-1895837049
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 245 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,359,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
The Insolent Boy, the debut novel from Canadian author and filmmaker John Stiles, certainly is aptly titled. It follows the turbulent life of narrator Selwyn Davis from toddlerhood to early middle age. A talented, intelligent but deeply antisocial boy, he is nurtured by adoptive parents in rural Nova Scotia. After a doomed romance, he leaves home and falls in with a rock band that takes him around the world including a stint in a Japanese prison. Though the book's second half feels a bit rushed, Selwyn is a memorable (if not exactly lovable) protagonist, and Stiles tells his grimly comic story with wit and heart.
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What if Anne Shirley, the sweet heroine of Lucy Maud Montgomery's novels, was born in 1970 and decided to join a rock band? John Stiles's wonderful first novel answers these questions, in a manner of speaking. In the grand tradition of the Bible's prodigal son, Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stiles gives us The Insolent Boy.
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"Selwyn is a memorable protagonist. Stiles tells his grimly comic story with wit and heart."
--Publishers Weekly--
"If Holden Caulfield were Canadian he might be
Stiles's Selwyn Davis... the promise of a new voice is strong."
--University of Toronto Quarterly--
"There's some fine, snappy, funny writing in The Insolent Boy. A fresh viewpoint glitters intermittently throughout this first novel."
--The Globe and Mail--
"Has the mythological quality of Günter Grass' The Tin Drum."
--The Georgia Straight--
"(The novel is...) very good at describing the tunnel vision mentality of a touring rock band..."
--***Eye Weekly--
"Hilarious... reminiscent of Portnoy`s Complaint."
--The Danforth Review--
"The opening chapters of The Insolent Boy are laugh out loud funny."
--Pagitica in Toronto--
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