Will Ferguson

Will Ferguson takes us on a wild romp across the dust bowl of West Texas. The year is 1939. The world is on the brink of war, and the American Dream is rusting out from the inside. Jack McGreary is adrift in the faded boomtown of Paradise Flats. Raised by his eccentric and increasingly erratic father, Jack has learned to live by his wits. He outsmarts the local businessmen, out-argues the local priest, and even outplays a gang of hardened carnies at a seedy fairground. And when a pair of fast-talking swindlers named Virgil and Miss Rose blow through town, Jack falls in with them. Together they go on a crime spree across the American Southwest, staging a series of elaborate and often hilarious cons. Young Jack is swept along into a world of hot jazz and cold calculating crimes of the heart, as the sexual tension between him and Miss Rose comes to a boil. Someone is being set up. Are Miss Rose and Virgil playing Jack? Or is Jack playing them?

La nueva novela del autor de Happiness.Jack McGreary es un hombre joven con un alma atormentada y un don para las estafas. Criado por su padre en Paradise Flats, una ciudad fantasmal en los años de la Depresion americana, Jack ha aprendido a vivir de su ingenio. Asi, cuando aparecen Virgil Ray y Miss Rose, dos timadores experimentados, por la ciudad, Jack une sus fuerzas a las de ellos. Juntos se dedican a devastar el suroeste del pais con sus estafas, a menudo elaboradas, ingeniosas y graciosisimas. El joven Jack es arrastrado a un mundo donde el jazz y los crimenes conforman su dia a dia, mientras crece la tension sexual entre el y Miss Rose.Todo el mundo querra leerla...Llena de matices y cautivadora, La herencia de Drake es, sin ninguna duda, lo mejor que ha escrito Will Ferguson. Quill & Quire El escritor mas divertido de todo Canada. National Post Salvajemente hilarante. Glasgow Herald Un escritor con un gran talento y extremadamente divertido. Time Out

Raised by his father in the dying town of Paradise Flats, Jack McGreary has learned to live by his wits. The year is 1939. Drought has turned America''s heartland into a dust bowl, and the world is on the brink of war. Jack''s father wants him to head north to Canada to sign up in the fight against Fascism. But when a pair of fast-talking swindlers named Virgil and Miss Rose blow through town, Jack falls in with them instead. Together, they go on a crime spree across the Southwest, staging a series of inventive and often hilarious cons, while sexual tension between Jack and Miss Rose grows... Someone is being set up.

Una sátira despiadada del poder de los medios de comunicación, de la industria de la superación personal y de la credulidad de la gente. Para reírse descubriendo qué sucedería si un libro de autoayuda cumpliera sus promesas, las empresas tabaqueras, de bebidas alcoholicas, etc... Se arruinarian. Es el fin del mundo tal y como lo conocemos.

While the rest of the country is joining the new happinessTM cult, Edwin (the wiry, grey-suited, low-level editor at New York publisher Panderic Press) is in trouble. A cartel of drug, alcohol, tobacco and drug-rehab bosses have a contract out on him. It''s all the fault of the mysterious Tupac Soiree, and his book What I Learned on the Mountain. But who is Tupac? And how can Edwin stop the world from succumbing to this plague of HappinessTM?

Una sátira despiadada y divertidísima sobre la industria de la superación personalUna compulsiva crítica del poder que ejercen los medios de comunicación y de nuestro desesperado narcisismo e irredimible credulidad. Para reirse a gusto descubriendo que sucederia si un libro de autoayuda cumpliera sus promesas; el fin del mundo como lo conocemos.

Un editor mediocre descubre un manuscrito de un personaje mediático, una obra de superación personal que garantiza la felicidad. El editor sabe que el autor es un fraude; el libro tiene un gran éxito y todo el mundo abandona sus responsabilidades porque es feliz. El Apocalipsis llega por exceso de bienestar. Sátira del poder de los medios de comunicación y de la industria de la superación personal.

A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine. A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in Africa. And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the Internet, looking for victims.Lives intersect. Worlds collide. And it all begins with a single email: Dear Sir, I am the daughter of a Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help...At once a chilling thriller about a lonely woman avenging her fathers death and an epic portrait of morality and corruption across the globe, Will Fergusons Giller Prize-winning novel plunges into the labyrinth of lies that is 419, the worlds most insidious Internet scam.

Libro que llena de vigor que llen la vida y que hará cambiar la perspectiva sobre el mundo.