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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."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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"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"
"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"
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- PublisherECW Press,Canada
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1550229109
- ISBN 13 9781550229103
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages184
- IllustratorMunday Evan
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