Spanish Fly, Will Ferguson
Spanish Fly, Will Ferguson
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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


Synopsis

Will Ferguson's Spanish Fly was long-listed for an IMPAC Dublin Award and short-listed for a Leacock Medal for humor. Times are tough for young Jack McGreary in the American Dust Bowl. Living with his father, Jack is only getting by thanks to a solid repertoire of cons and scams. Everything gets shaken up, though, when shysters Virgil Ray and Miss Rose roll into town. Recognizing them as first-class scam artists, Jack gleefully joins their criminal band. Soon a budding romance between Jack and Miss Rose begins to bloom, but is it on the up-and-up?

About Will Ferguson

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shannon

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

Goodreads review by Maureen

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

Goodreads review by Geoff

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

Goodreads review by Arlene

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

Goodreads review by Anne

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