Searching for Petronius Totem - Softcover

Unwin, Peter

3.38

13 ratings by Goodreads

9781988298092: Searching for Petronius Totem

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1988298091 ISBN 13: 9781988298092

Publisher: Freehand Books, 2017

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Following a dramatic break-up with his long-suffering wife, Jack Vesoovian retreats to a Hamilton rooming house, where he impulsively decides to take to the road to track down his life-long colleague, Petronius Totem.

Petronius Totem has disappeared following the unlikely success of his memoir, Ten Thousand Busted Chunks, praised for its searing honesty. But when it is discovered to be a pack of lies, Petronius Totem becomes universally despised.

Meanwhile, Jack faces another grim truth: the world is being taken over by a sinister multi-national Fibre-Optic Catering business that has created a chicken-like food matter than can actually fly. Can he and Petronius Totem escape into a virtual future that is free of Chick Lit and flying fibre-optic chickens? Or will Jack return home to his wife Elaine whom it seems, with good reason, will shoot him on sight?

Searching for Petronius Totem is a love story for the age: a wild, imaginative, and utterly original novel.

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About the Author:

Peter Unwin was born in Sheffield, England, and raised in Southern Ontario. A writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, his work has been nominated for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour and the Trillium Book Award. He lives in Toronto.

Review:

“[A] coruscating, frustrating, and sometimes blisteringly funny evisceration of sacred cows in the realms of digital technology, identity politics, and CanLit... a scabrous, gleefully offensive, high-energy ride across a landscape that looks oddly familiar, but is viewed at an oblique angle and through a purposefully distorted lens.” ―Quill and Quire

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