

Spanish Fly
Author: Will Ferguson
Narrator: David Aaron Baker
Unabridged: 13 hr 57 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 12/04/2009
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Will Ferguson
Narrator: David Aaron Baker
Unabridged: 13 hr 57 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 12/04/2009
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
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.
Growing up in Texas during the Great Depression, Jack McGreary is a very bright young man with an erratic father who's fallen hard for the Drake Gold scam. His father's dreams of a building a house have gone up with the dust of topsoil that blows across the once-fertile prairies all the way into Can......more
spanish fly recounts the adventures of one young jim mcgreary, a poor but strapping young man who grows up in the depression-era dustbowl in the U.S., in the blink-and-you-miss-it town of paradise flats, its residents suckered by speculators who promised it would be a boom town. jack's grown up not......more
Best known for his humorous travel writing, Will Ferguson shifted away from his preferred genre and wrote a historical fiction book set during The Great Depression. Ferguson's writing isn't dumbed down to Dan Brown levels, but it won't leave you reaching for a dictionary at every turn of the page ei......more
Humor and a wonderfully entertaining look at depression era America and the scam game. Characters were 3D and attractive. A lot of research must have been done to include so much detail of the era. Some fabulous phrases. Suprising ending. One of my top ten reads.......more
I read Ferguson's 419 and thoroughly enjoyed it -- and have been waiting for this book for months to arrive from the library. I was not disappointed. Both books deal with scams...but different locations and different eras. I suggest watching the TV series Sneaky Pete -- similarly themed -- with coun......more