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"A flamboyant gem of a novel... an intense, textured, tangled love story... puts [Winter] in the front rank of writers worth reading." -- The Globe & Mail
"Beautifully written, doleful and comic and heartfelt, this just might be the book to bring the 42-year-old Winter the broader audience many think he has long deserved." -- Edmonton Journal
"Brainy and ambitious - just like its author." -- Toronto Life
"Supreme originality, shattering insight... Michael Winter is well on his way to having one of the most distinctive voices in Canadian literature." -- Winnipeg Free Press
"Beautifully written, doleful and comic and heartfelt, this just might be the book to bring the 42-year-old Winter the broader audience many think he has long deserved." -- Edmonton Journal
"Brainy and ambitious - just like its author." -- Toronto Life
"Supreme originality, shattering insight... Michael Winter is well on his way to having one of the most distinctive voices in Canadian literature." -- Winnipeg Free Press
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When Gabriel English’s partner Nell doesn’t come home from work one day, he connects with longtime friend David Twombly for a trip back to their hometown in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, where years back all their lives began to unravel with a tragic drowning. As the journey progresses, secrets are unveiled, a friendship is tested, and there is a run-in with the Hurley family, a family both men have feared since childhood. In The Architects Are Here, Winter’s fifth and most emotionally resonant novel to date, he explores the nature of grief and friendship in unwaveringly powerful prose, and sheds light on who we are and how we go on when the future seems uncertain.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The Architects Are Here - A wonderful escape,
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This review is from: The Architects Are Here (Paperback)
I hated seeing this single review below spoil the rating for this unique and wonderful story. Gabriel English is a tightly-written protagonist whose faults and jealousies are made plain on the page as he struggles into adulthood alongside his best friend, David Twombly, a larger-than-life man-boy, who never quite escapes his father's notoriety and stigma.The story is essentially a road-trip novel, though the road trip doesn't start until about half way through. Before that we get a history of the main forces, of Gabriel's love of his home town of Cornerbrook, NF, and David's separateness, having come from Michigan with his family as a boy. What unites them is the attraction to Nell Tarkington, a beautifully aloof soul to arrives in Cornerbrook for university, barely over her parents' death in a plane crash months earlier. The book is at times random, and highly improbably, which gives it an element of magical realism mixed with the optimism of a technological future that science fiction brings. David and Nell work for a high-tech company that produces communications devices that will one day likely exist, though in the world of the novel, stand out among the glaring contemporary nature of the world they live in. This is a world of contrasts: money and poverty; moral ambiguity and certainty; real and unreal. The dialogue melds into the rest of the words like poetry; sometimes it is difficult to tell what is coming out of Gabriel's mouth, or out of his head. But that makes it even more compelling, when you realize the flawed nature of those thoughts. The book's climax is disgusting, heart-wrenching and tragic. I loved it. In fact, I loved the whole novel and look forward to reading Winter's other books. Reading it, I fell in love with Newfoundland, and with the literary versions of Toronto and Montreal depicted so effortlessly by Winter. I would heartily recommend this book, especially to cozy up to by a fire on a cold winter day. You need to brace yourself for the harder, trying moments of this novel. But getting through it was extremely rewarding.
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not What I Expected,
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This review is from: The Architects Are Here (Paperback)
The Architects are Here, by Michael Winter, tells the story of friends from Newfoundland who travel back to the island to visit an ailing father. Their journey across Canada to get back home reveals more of the story of their shared and independent pasts. While the story was good, there were parts of the book that I hated and didn't find believable. At the end of the book, I was left with a feeling of sadness over the entire story. Not one of my favourite books of 2008.
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