

419
Author: Will Ferguson
Narrator: Pete Bradbury
Unabridged: 13 hr
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 11/08/2013
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Author: Will Ferguson
Narrator: Pete Bradbury
Unabridged: 13 hr
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 11/08/2013
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Will Ferguson is the author of five novels, including 419, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. A three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, he has been nominated for both a Commonwealth Prize and an International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His most recent novels, The Finder and The Shoe on the Roof, were instant national bestsellers. Will Ferguson lives in Calgary. Visit him at WillFerguson.ca.
[Canadian Giller Prize Winner 2012]. Good concept – but a little too ‘concept’ (all the way to calling it ‘419’, which has a whiff of dystopian global SF about it at first). It’s rather let down by its character development and plot structure, which (I hate saying this) do feel ‘first novel’ and mea......more
Rather than letting down her long braid to be saved by a prince Rapunzel will tie the end to a post, lower herself down, cut her hair off and run free. Laura, the heroine of this fantastic story, not only reimagines the fairy tale she lives it. Ferguson explores the deeper thematic ideas about good,......more
Canadian naiveté meets Nigerian artfulness in this tale about a real-world phenomenon known as the 419 scam that all of us who dabble in the internet are open to. Laura, a nondescript editor (who later surprises us when she rises to Herculean heights) is tracing the last months of her father’s life a......more