Civilization: And Its Part in My Downfall

By Paul Quarrington

Received with almost unanimous accolades from critics and readers alike, Civilization is the amazing tale of Thom Moss, a young man who sets out in the early twentieth century in search of a grand adventure.  He soon finds himself in the thick of Hollywoodland, employed as an actor by the renowned Caspar Willison, master of the two-reel cowboy flicker.  However, Thom's fortune quickly takes a ruinous turn and he lands in the Penitentiary, where he writes the story of his downfall.  At once hilarious and courageous, Civilization is a daring work by one of Canada's finest novelists.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Dec 21, 2011
• ISBN: 9780307364067

Paul Quarrington

Paul Quarrington is the author of eight novels. He is also a musician, an award-winning screen-writer, a filmmaker, a playwright and an acclaimed non-fiction writer. He won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction for Whale Music and the Stephen Leacock Medal for King Leary. Storm Chasers was named one of the Top 100 Books of the Year by The Globe and Mail, one of the Best Five Canadian Fiction Titles of 2004 by Quill & Quire, and was shortlisted for the 2004 Giller Prize.