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Four years ago, the writer and filmmaker Alex Pugsley published Aubrey McKee, the first of five planned autobiographical novels. Aubrey narrates his life in Halifax between 1963 and 1985. The history of the “saltwater city, a place of silted genius, sudden women, figures floating in all waters” confronts him as he passes “through ...
Of what value is material success? What is love? What is friendship? Much of the often heated dialogue in all three parts of The Education of Aubrey McKee is the struggle to come up with a definite answer to these questions. There is an intoxicating quality to Pugsley’s prose at times.
May 20, 2024 · The following is from Alex Pugsley's The Education of Aubrey McKee. Pugsley is the author of the novel Aubrey McKee and the short story collection Shimmer . Following the publication of Aubrey McKee , he was named one of CBC’s Writers to Watch.
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Although the sections of Aubrey McKee were written to be short stories, they all have the same narrator and they’re all about Halifax. The short stories in Shimmerare quite different. There is an assortment of narrators, of varying maturities, and the stories take place all over—Toronto, L.A., and Cape Breton, among other settings. They were writte...
What do the stories have in common? Do you see a link between them, either structurally or thematically?
There arelinks between them. Characters you see in one story, from one character’s point of view, you might see again in another story, at another time, and from a different point of view. The reader has an active relationship with regard to figuring out who someone is and what their life means. And structurally they’re similar because they’re writ...
Jun 23, 2020 · An arcana of oddball angels, Alex Pugsley’s long-awaited debut novel follows rich-kid drug dealers and junior tennis brats, émigré heart surgeons and small-time thugs, renegade private school girls and runaway children as they try to make sense of the city into which they’ve been born.
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Jun 19, 2020 · Whether he’s recalling his phase as “an indiscriminate teenage joiner” or as a marijuana salesman in the mid-1970s, Alex Pugsley’s narrator writes from the point of a man well settled into...
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Jun 2, 2020 · by Alex Pugsley ‧RELEASE DATE: June 2, 2020. The life of a Canadian city is revealed with verve and insight through the colorful stories of some of its inhabitants. bookshelf. shop now. A sensitive young man shares his memories of growing up in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
