The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal

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'The novel everyone will be talking about' London Lite '[A] sweet, unpredictable novel!ingenious and openly written' Time Out 'The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women's Book Club is unconventional in more ways than one -- namely that its members don't do much reading! But they do share a bond and help each other to cope with the changing world in this fab book. 4 stars' OK! Magazine 'A clever little book!you'll love it' Daily Express 'A sort of Tristram Shandy for the twenty-first century!It'll blow your mind.' Michael Redhill 'Dixon's talents, however, extend beyond theatrics: flashbacks and set pieces are tightly written and offer the full-bodied coherence one expects from a novel.' Quill & Quire 'What makes Sean Dixon's first novel so electrifyingly smart and charming is its abundant passion.' The Georgia Straight '[In] this ambitious book!Dixon has fashioned his make-believe to be relevant, offered a satisfying harvest from early planted seeds, and embedded some fine intellectual levity.' The Globe and Mail 'Every chapter is filled with biff, bang, pow surprises! Suspend your disbelief and thrill in the oddities.' She Does the City.com 'Sean Dixon is a worthy successor to some of Canada's foremost authors. He is in possession of an imaginative gift akin to Timothy Findley, the erudition and style of Robertson Davies and the off beat humor of Mordecai Richler. And like them, he is deserving of recognition and a following south of the border' Bruce Bauman, author of And The Word Was 'The novel is infused with sex and literary in-jokes and the postmodern device of self-reflexive footnotes to spice up the story. But its surface playfulness masks a deeper seriousness: there is death in the novel, and war and a recognition of human fragility and loneliness. These themes, which are deeply and inextricably embedded, put the lie to the notion that a Canadian novel must affect a stentorian pose in order to be worthy of consideration. Flannery O'Connor wrote that "all comic novels that are any good must be about matters of life and death"; Sean Dixon would surely agree.' That Shakespearean Rag 'Riddled with references to literature throughout centuries and contemporary culture, this story is more than the words contained within the covers!fast paced, witty and engaging' Broken Pencil Lit Zine