The Shoe on the Roof, Will Ferguson
The Shoe on the Roof, Will Ferguson
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The Shoe on the Roof

Author: Will Ferguson

Narrator: Jacques Roy

Unabridged: 8 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/24/2018


Synopsis

Meet Thomas Rosanoff: med student and researcher.
Meet his subjects: three homeless men who believe they are God.

Ever since his girlfriend ended things, Thomas’s life has been on a downward spiral. A gifted medical student, he has spent his entire adulthood struggling to escape the legacy of his father, an esteemed psychiatrist who used him as a test subject when he was a boy. Thomas lived his entire childhood watched over by researchers lurking behind one-way glass.

But now the tables have turned. Thomas is the researcher, and he’s convinced an experiment he has concocted will cure three homeless men of their delusional claims. When the experiment careens out of control, however, Thomas is forced to confront the voices echoing in his own head and the ghosts of his own past.

An explosively imaginative tour de force, The Shoe on the Roof questions our definitions of sanity and madness while exploring the magical reality that lies just beyond the world of scientific fact.

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 Mel (Epic Reading) on April 10, 2018

As always Will Ferguson has immaculate writing. I always really enjoy his writing style, pacing and flow. Without a doubt this Canadian (and from my local city, Calgary!) has a writing ability that is far above many others who write fiction novels (of any kind). Science-y As with any book with a scie......more

Goodreads review by Brandon on October 10, 2017

After having his heart broken by his girlfriend, Thomas – a highly ambitious and egotistical student of science and psychology – decides he will win her back by curing her mentally ill brother of the belief he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. In doing so, Thomas will gather two additional men w......more

Goodreads review by Lashaan on February 17, 2018

You can find my review on my blog by clicking here. Giller prize-winning author of 419 returns with a different and unique story that tackles sanity and madness through the eyes of a man who breaks everything down with science. This work of fiction is the story of Thomas Rosanoff’s, one of the most a......more

Goodreads review by Krista on November 17, 2017

Thomas, there will always be an unanswerable question at the core of everything; there will always be a shoe on the roof. This world of ours is murky and filled with wonders, and there are fibers of mystery clinging to everything. Better to live with this ambiguity than try to deny it, I say. The......more

Goodreads review by Harold on November 09, 2017

The best book I've read in November (2017). I nudged Missus and told her, "This is a good book."......more