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No relation : a novel / Terry Fallis.
Meet Earnest Hemmingway. What's in a name? Well, if you share your moniker with the likes of some of the most revered, infamous, and sometimes dreaded names in history, plenty. This is Earnest's lifelong plight, but something more recent is on his plate: His father is pressuring him to come home and play an active role in running the family clothing business. And as a complex familial battle plays out, Earnest's inherited name leads him in unexpected directions.
Winner of the 2011 Canada Reads, author Terry Fallis' sharp, funny wit takes readers into the world of identity, inheritance, and belonging - begging the question: what's in a name? One morning a young copywriter finds himself unceremoniously fired from his job, and then catches his live-in girlfriend moving out of their apartment a couple of hours later. Believe it or not, these aren't the biggest problems in this copywriter's life. There's something bigger, something that has been haunting him his whole life, something that he'll never be able to shake.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780771036163 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0771036167 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 395 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: [Toronto] : McClelland & Stewart, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, a Penguin Random House Company, [2013]
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| Subject: | Copy writers > Fiction. Employees > Dismissal of > Fiction. Families > Fiction. Separation (Psychology) > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Canadian fiction. Humorous fiction. Humorous fiction, Canadian. |
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- 39 of 41 copies available at Sitka.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Beaver Valley Public Library | F FAL (Text) | 35144000118476 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Boissevain-Morton Library | F/Fallis (Text) | 36266000205786 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Burns Lake Public Library | AF FAL (Text) | 35198000523333 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Public Library | FIC FAL (Text) | 35146001866524 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Creston Public Library | FIC FAL (Text)
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35140001061954 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Elkford Public Library | FC FAL (Text) | 35170000368316 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fernie Heritage Library | FIC FAL (Text) | 35136000440538 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort St. James Public Library | FAL (Text) | 35196000288915 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Glenwood and Souris Regional Library | F Fallis 2013 (Text) | 367640000119180 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Hazelton Public Library | Fic (Text) | 35154000057186 | Adult Fiction - Main Floor | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-01 |
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In his fourth novel, winner of the 2011 Canada Reads competition and "CanLit's crowned king of chuckles" (Telegraph-Journal) Terry Fallis's sharp, funny wit takes readers into the world of identity, inheritance, and belonging, begging the question: What's in a name?
This is the story of a young copywriter in New York City. He's worked at the same agency for fifteen years, and with a recent promotion under his belt, life is good. Then, one morning this copywriter finds himself unceremoniously fired from his job, and after he catches his live-in girlfriend moving out of their apartment a couple hours later, he's also single. Believe it or not, these aren't the biggest problems in this copywriter's life. There's something bigger, something that has been haunting him his whole life, something that he'll never be able to shake. Meet Earnest Hemmingway.
What's in a name? Well, if you share your moniker with the likes of some of the most revered, infamous, and sometimes dreaded names in history, plenty. This is Earnest's lifelong plight, but something more recent is on his plate: His father is pressuring him to come home and play an active role in running the family clothing business. And as a complex familial battle plays out, Earnest's inherited name leads him in unexpected directions. Wry, clever, and utterly engaging, No Relation is Terry Fallis at the top of his form.
