{"id":313,"date":"2013-08-13T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglasglover.net\/?page_id=313"},"modified":"2013-08-13T23:36:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T23:36:55","slug":"the-south-will-rise-at-noon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/douglasglover.net\/?page_id=313","title":{"rendered":"The South Will Rise at Noon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Douglas<\/a>\u201cA fast, furious, and funny read.\u201d (The New York Times Book Review<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\u201cAmong the greatest comic novels ever written by a Canadian.\u201d (CBC State of the Arts<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\u201cA rollicking and readable portrait of a most unusual man . . . [a] vastly entertaining book.\u201d (The Globe and Mail<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\u201cJaunty social commentary in a manic plot . . . Wonderfully choreographed . . . Beneath the relentlessly breezy tone, there is a curious autumnal melancholy.\u201d (The Toronto Star<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\u201cRiotous, rolling, rambunctious, and compulsively readable . . . It\u2019s been a long, long time since a novel has succeeded with the uninhibited vulgarity of The South Will Rise at Noon<\/i>. This is such a great, toothy grin of a novel, what used to called a tour de force<\/i>, that I want to quote the whole thing . . . when the end draws near one wants, not a tidy wrap-up, but more<\/i>.\u201d (Books in Canada<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\u201cWonderfuly implausible, crazy, hilarious, unexpected \u2014 like it\u2019s hero.\u201d (The Kingston Whig-Standard<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\"Douglas<\/a>\u201cA farce . . . exactly how I plan to behave in my next life.\u201d (San Diego Tribune<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\u201cA hoot and a half . . . a wonderfully engaging fictional voice. The South Will Rise at Noon<\/i> is a thoroughly enjoyable romp of a book . . . Those good ole boys surely can write \u2014 even when they\u2019re from Canada.\u201d\u00a0 (The Chicago Tribune,<\/i> Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/i>)<\/p>\n

\u201cGlover\u2019s ripe imagination keeps this shaggy-dog story hurtling along.\u201d (Publishers Weekly)<\/i><\/p>\n

“Shall we clear away the superlatives and blurt out the bias here, straight out? Whale Music is the best comic novel since Douglas Glover’s The South Will Rise at Noon<\/em> (1988), which was the best comic novel since Michael Malone’s Handling Sin<\/em> (1985), which has been called the best since Joseph Heller’s Catch-22<\/em>. We’re talking not of slapstick or the merely amusing, but of the serious novel that is not sombre, that makes you laugh while confronting reality.” (Jack Macleod in Books in Canada<\/em>)<\/p>\n

“A lively piece of work . . . packed with incident . . . an amiable romp.” (Montreal Gazette<\/em>)<\/p>\n

“Glover shakes windows, rattles walls, and challenges dominant CanLit tropes like few others.”\u00a0 (The Danforth Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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