Hired to teach in a junior college, Will Franklyn has come to Montreal expecting a life to proceed much as it had in Nova Scotia where he grew up, or in Edmonton or Edinburgh where he studied. But in Quebec everything - all law, all logic, all humanMoreHired to teach in a junior college, Will Franklyn has come to Montreal expecting a life to proceed much as it had in Nova Scotia where he grew up, or in Edmonton or Edinburgh where he studied.
But in Quebec everything - all law, all logic, all human behaviour - is topsy-turvy. Trusting and bemused, Will manages - just - to stay sane in the midst of lunacy.In this novel, a companion to his sombre The Man Who Loved Jane Austen, Ray Smith demonstrates once again that he is a master of comic fiction, leading us a merry chase round the mountain. The familiar places are there - Schwartzs, the St. Viateur Bagel Shop, the Big O - but lurking behind every familiar certainty is the unexpected, the bizarre, the topsy-turvy.