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    The Education of Aubrey McKee
    Aubrey McKee
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    The Aubrey McKee Novels Series

    By Alex Pugsley

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    A Toronto Star Most Anticipated Spring Title • A 49th Shelf Can't Miss Title for Spring

    A young writer finds his way in and out of love in late twentieth-century Toronto.

    The scene is Toronto, the early 1990s, and at a house party Aubrey McKee falls in love with a bewitching stranger who talks him into stealing a piece of cake. This woman—a poet named Gudrun Peel—rapidly becomes the person for whom he would do anything at all. Together, Aubrey and Gudrun make a life of delirious idiosyncrasy. Surrounded by friends, frenemies, lovers, and rivals in the underground arts scene, the possibilities of their destiny remain radically open. But as their relationship deepens, and their creative and professional lives stumble, stall, and then suddenly blow up, Aubrey and Gudrun struggle against their own inexperience . . . as well as each other.

    The much-anticipated follow-up to Alex Pugsley’s Aubrey McKee, The Education of Aubrey McKee is a campus novel in which the city of Toronto is the institute of higher education and the setting for a glittering story about the incandescence of first love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBiblioasis
    Release dateJan 1, 1978
    The Education of Aubrey McKee
    Aubrey McKee

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    • 1

      Aubrey McKee
      Aubrey McKee

      Aubrey McKee

      Alex Pugsley
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      3/5 - 1 rating

      Comprised of linked short stories that have been widely published in Canada, the novel’s individual sections have won multiple Canadian awards and received praise from John Irving, Sheila Heti, Madeline Thien, and others. Reviewers have likened Pugsley’s fiction to that of J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey and Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. The author also identifies Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women and Great Expectations as influences. Afilmmaker, Pugsley’s cinematic eye translates to image-driven prose and crisp dialogue.

      Comprised of linked short stories that have been widely published in Canada, the novel’s individual sections have won multiple Canadian awards and received praise from John Irving, Sheila Heti, Madeline Thien, and others. Reviewers have likened Pugsley’s fiction to that of J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey and Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. The author also identifies Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women and Great Expectations as influences. Afilmmaker, Pugsley’s cinematic eye translates to image-driven prose and crisp dialogue.

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      The Education of Aubrey McKee
      The Education of Aubrey McKee

      The Education of Aubrey McKee

      Alex Pugsley
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      A Toronto Star Most Anticipated Spring Title • A 49th Shelf Can't Miss Title for Spring A young writer finds his way in and out of love in late twentieth-century Toronto. The scene is Toronto, the early 1990s, and at a house party Aubrey McKee falls in love with a bewitching stranger who talks him into stealing a piece of cake. This woman—a poet named Gudrun Peel—rapidly becomes the person for whom he would do anything at all. Together, Aubrey and Gudrun make a life of delirious idiosyncrasy. Surrounded by friends, frenemies, lovers, and rivals in the underground arts scene, the possibilities of their destiny remain radically open. But as their relationship deepens, and their creative and professional lives stumble, stall, and then suddenly blow up, Aubrey and Gudrun struggle against their own inexperience . . . as well as each other. The much-anticipated follow-up to Alex Pugsley’s Aubrey McKee, The Education of Aubrey McKee is a campus novel in which the city of Toronto is the institute of higher education and the setting for a glittering story about the incandescence of first love.

      A Toronto Star Most Anticipated Spring Title • A 49th Shelf Can't Miss Title for Spring A young writer finds his way in and out of love in late twentieth-century Toronto. The scene is Toronto, the early 1990s, and at a house party Aubrey McKee falls in love with a bewitching stranger who talks him into stealing a piece of cake. This woman—a poet named Gudrun Peel—rapidly becomes the person for whom he would do anything at all. Together, Aubrey and Gudrun make a life of delirious idiosyncrasy. Surrounded by friends, frenemies, lovers, and rivals in the underground arts scene, the possibilities of their destiny remain radically open. But as their relationship deepens, and their creative and professional lives stumble, stall, and then suddenly blow up, Aubrey and Gudrun struggle against their own inexperience . . . as well as each other. The much-anticipated follow-up to Alex Pugsley’s Aubrey McKee, The Education of Aubrey McKee is a campus novel in which the city of Toronto is the institute of higher education and the setting for a glittering story about the incandescence of first love.

    Author

    Alex Pugsley

    Alex Pugsley is the author of the novels Aubrey McKee and The Education of Aubrey McKee, as well as the short story collection Shimmer. Following the publication of Aubrey McKee, he was named one of CBC’s Writers to Watch. He has been nominated for Canadian Comedy Awards, Gemini Awards, Hot Doc Awards, National Magazine Awards, and is a winner of the Writers’ Trust Journey Prize. His feature film Dirty Singles is available on Apple TV and Prime Video. His next novel, Silver Lake, the third book in a series about Aubrey McKee, is forthcoming from Biblioasis.

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