Wiseman's Wager
From an emergency room in Calgary, where an intern hears his poorly timed joke about suicide, Zan winds up on the psychologist’s couch. But the doctor’s efforts to investigate Zan’s mental state are constantly stymied by his misfiring memory, his wry delivery, and his novelist’s tendency to embellish. Is he misremembering, misrepresenting, crafting a better story – or all of the above? Through the streets of Strike-era Winnipeg, Toronto during the Depression, and the 1980s Calgary of Zan’s new life, Dave Margoshes’s compellingly unreliable narrator treats the reader to a magnificent meditation on aging, family ties, faith, and the liquid concept of the truth.
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Wiseman's Wager
From an emergency room in Calgary, where an intern hears his poorly timed joke about suicide, Zan winds up on the psychologist’s couch. But the doctor’s efforts to investigate Zan’s mental state are constantly stymied by his misfiring memory, his wry delivery, and his novelist’s tendency to embellish. Is he misremembering, misrepresenting, crafting a better story – or all of the above? Through the streets of Strike-era Winnipeg, Toronto during the Depression, and the 1980s Calgary of Zan’s new life, Dave Margoshes’s compellingly unreliable narrator treats the reader to a magnificent meditation on aging, family ties, faith, and the liquid concept of the truth.
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Wiseman's Wager

Wiseman's Wager

by Dave Margoshes
Wiseman's Wager

Wiseman's Wager

by Dave Margoshes

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Overview

From an emergency room in Calgary, where an intern hears his poorly timed joke about suicide, Zan winds up on the psychologist’s couch. But the doctor’s efforts to investigate Zan’s mental state are constantly stymied by his misfiring memory, his wry delivery, and his novelist’s tendency to embellish. Is he misremembering, misrepresenting, crafting a better story – or all of the above? Through the streets of Strike-era Winnipeg, Toronto during the Depression, and the 1980s Calgary of Zan’s new life, Dave Margoshes’s compellingly unreliable narrator treats the reader to a magnificent meditation on aging, family ties, faith, and the liquid concept of the truth.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781550508093
Publisher: Coteau Books
Publication date: 08/01/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 392
File size: 658 KB

About the Author

Dave Margoshes is the author of four other novels and three shortstory collections, including Saskatchewan Book of the Year Bix’s Trumpet and 2012’s acclaimed A Book of Great Worth. He is a winner of the Stephen Leacock Poetry Award and twice-winner of the City of Regina Writing Award. Now based in Saskatoon, he spent many years as a journalist in New York, San Francisco, Calgary, and Vancouver.
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