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Vinyl Cafe Diaries [Hardcover]

Stuart Mclean (Author)
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Release Date: Oct 14 2003
Now, at last, the truth revealed… Master storyteller and humorist Stuart McLean takes us into the deepest recesses of the Vinyl Cafe to reveal the secret lives and hidden passions of the seemingly ordinary folk found there. The Vinyl Cafe Diaries answers these and other probing questions:

- What is Dave doing, by himself, in a Halifax hotel room, with a duck? - What purloined item has Sam surreptitiously stuffed under his mattress and why? - Why is Dave hollering and pounding on the door of the neighbour's house with a small boy clutched in his arms? - What grisly secret is Stephanie hiding in her father's picnic cooler? - Why is Kenny Wong laughing to himself as he reads the want ads? - Why in the name of decency is Morley parading around in Stephanie's clothes? - What are in the mysterious brown-paper packages that Sam is receiving by mail? - What cartoon character has been the object of Stephanie's unrequited love? - And why is Dave wearing that awful Grateful Dead T-shirt?

The Vinyl Cafe Diaries exposes the answers to these questions in never-before-told (well, okay, told on the radio) stories of strange secrets, odd dreams, high hopes, and, of course, hilarious misadventures.

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Master storyteller and humorist Stuart McLean is the author of several bestselling books, including Vinyl Cafe Diaries, which won the short fiction award from the Canadian Authors Association; Home from the Vinyl Cafe and Vinyl Cafe Unplugged, which both won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour; and Welcome Home: Travels in Smalltown Canada, which won the CAA's award for non-fiction. He lives in Toronto.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must have! Jan 22 2013
By Sebastian A. Praus
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I just love Dave and his family. He's equally clumsy like me and some of the things happening to him could happen to me as well. He's my best imaginary friend from Canada.
Unfortunately this edition is not available for Kindle yet so I've had it shipped to friend's house in Montreal to bring it back to Europe. Writing this , I still have tears in my eyes after reding the duck story.

Sebastian from Belgium
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5.0 out of 5 stars Short stories connected chronologically, as well as by character and place. Nov 24 2012
By Donna Ziner
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
These homey stories will warm your heart and make you laugh. Best of all, there are almost endless sequels! I love Stuart McLean, he is so Canadian.
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5.0 out of 5 stars perfect for the eclectic reader-and just about everyone else Dec 2 2005
By c_dyan84
Format:Hardcover
If McLean were to write MY biography, I think that I'd rather that people go read IT than meet ME. McLean views even the seemingly ordinary with an extraordinary angle, making even the most regular-looking tales involving cigarettes, blizzards, and dorm life sound like the quirky adventures they truly are.

A repository of a certain Dave and Morley's family anecdotes (which, I promise you, would strangely remind you of your own), "Vinyl Cafe Diaries" is the kind of book that you'd expect to read once and put away...but, on second thought, would transfer onto your "favorites" shelf IN CASE you can revisit it someday. mainly to laugh again, of course.

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