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Hynes, Joel, 1976-
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Young men -- Fiction.
Self-destructive behavior -- Fiction.
Governor General's Award.
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
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Hynes, Joel, 1976-
Young men -- Fiction.
Self-destructive behavior -- Fiction.
Governor General's Award.
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
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We
'll
all
be
burnt
in
our
beds
some
night
: a
novel
/ Joel Thomas Hynes.
by
Hynes, Joel, 1976-
HarperCollins, 2017.
Call #:
FICTION HYN
Subjects
Young men -- Fiction.
Self-destructive behavior -- Fiction.
Governor General's Award.
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781443447836 (trade pbk.)
Description:
250 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"Scrappy tough guy and three-time loser Johnny Keough is going a little stir-crazy awaiting trial for an alleged assault charge involving his girlfriend, Madonna, and a teapot. Facing three to five years in a maximum-security prison, Johnny knows this might just be the end of the road. But when Madonna doesn’t show up for court due to a fatal accident, shell-shocked Johnny seizes his unexpected 'clean slate' as a sign from above and embarks on an epic hitchhiking journey across Canada to deliver her ashes to a fabled beach on the outskirts of Vancouver. Johnny’s wanderings see him propelled in and out of the driver’s seat of stolen cars, knocking heads with cagey cops, nearly decapitated by a moose, coming face-to-face with his incarcerated biological father in a Kingston jail, and finding surprising connections with strangers on the lonely road west. But most of
all
, he revisits the choices and mistakes of his past--his relationships with his adoptive father and a cousin who meant the world to him, and his first real chance at love with the woman who is now lost to him.
We
'll
All
Be
Burnt
in
Our
Beds
Some
Night
is the story of one man’s kicking-and-screaming attempt to recuperate from a life of petty crime and shattered relationships, and somehow accept and maybe even like the new man emerging from within, the one he so desperately needs to become."--From publisher.
Awards:
Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, 2017.
Genre:
Canadian fiction.
Road fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Literary fiction.
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