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Stripmalling is the story of one young man's embarrassing and hilarious journey to literary awareness. Jonny lives and works in a strip mall in suburban Winnipeg. For some people, this would be an exciting and fulfilling life. But Jonny has a dream: he wants to be a writer. He has almost everything he needs to make this dream come true: a supportive girlfriend, an active imagination, and an abundance of subject matter. There is only one obstacle: his own relentless stupidity. Imagine Proust without all those annoying words and insights. Imagine a book so funny, so clever that even just touching it makes you a smarter, better person. Part journal, part comedy routine, and part graphic novel, Stripmalling is a unique experiment in genre and voice that is ambitious, accessible and laugh - out - loud funny. Parts of Stripmalling have appeared on CBC Radio One's All in a Weekend and in THIS Magazine, filling Station, Word, Event, Matrix, sub - Terrain, and Opium.
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Review:
"Fiorentino is wickedly funny."" --The Globe and Mail"
"A wall-to-wall shag carpet of variegated grimness and hapless hilarity; a mid-life crisis you can hold in your hand; a horny walking tour of sub-industrial, suburban Winnipeg." --Guy Maddin, screenwriter and director
"Worth reading for its wry, sardonic humour and delightfully self-deprecating tone . . . Thoroughly enjoyable ." "--Montreal Review of Books"
"What Jon Paul Fiorentino is up to is sly and self-effacing, deeply real and hilarious. Stripmalling is an absolute bender." --Emily Schultz, author, "Joyland"
"This incredibly comedic, somewhat tragic literary work is unlike anything you'll read, ever. Fiorentino details the desperate life of an aspiring writer with wit, oddness, and complexity." --Joe Meno, author, "Tender as Hellfire"
"Outrageous, intriguing and quietly powerful, " Stripmalling" offers readers the curious and ultimately rewarding experience of stepping outside their own stories." --"Scene Magazine"
"Both a semi-autobiographical first novel from Winnipeg-born author Jon Paul Fiorentino and something more complex and metafictional. . . . A collage-like experience, "Stripmalling "is a hybrid book forged out of multiple angles and perspectives. It is also a funny and clever experiment in tale-telling. --"Quill & Quire"
"Expands our concept of what makes something worth reading . . . [Jonny is] a metafictional anti-hero for the new millennium." --"Fiction Writers Review"
About the Author:
"A wall-to-wall shag carpet of variegated grimness and hapless hilarity; a mid-life crisis you can hold in your hand; a horny walking tour of sub-industrial, suburban Winnipeg." --Guy Maddin, screenwriter and director
"Worth reading for its wry, sardonic humour and delightfully self-deprecating tone . . . Thoroughly enjoyable ." "--Montreal Review of Books"
"What Jon Paul Fiorentino is up to is sly and self-effacing, deeply real and hilarious. Stripmalling is an absolute bender." --Emily Schultz, author, "Joyland"
"This incredibly comedic, somewhat tragic literary work is unlike anything you'll read, ever. Fiorentino details the desperate life of an aspiring writer with wit, oddness, and complexity." --Joe Meno, author, "Tender as Hellfire"
"Outrageous, intriguing and quietly powerful, " Stripmalling" offers readers the curious and ultimately rewarding experience of stepping outside their own stories." --"Scene Magazine"
"Both a semi-autobiographical first novel from Winnipeg-born author Jon Paul Fiorentino and something more complex and metafictional. . . . A collage-like experience, "Stripmalling "is a hybrid book forged out of multiple angles and perspectives. It is also a funny and clever experiment in tale-telling. --"Quill & Quire"
"Expands our concept of what makes something worth reading . . . [Jonny is] a metafictional anti-hero for the new millennium." --"Fiction Writers Review"
Jon Paul Fiorentino is the author of four books of poetry including Hello Serotonin and The Theory of the Loser Class, and one book of comedic fiction, Asthmatica. He lives in Montreal where he teaches writing at Concordia University and is the editor-in-chief of Matrix magazine. Stripmalling is his debut novel.
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- PublisherReadHowYouWant
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1459652177
- ISBN 13 9781459652170
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages172
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