the grammar architect
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the inactivist
Kind words about Chris's latest (2005): "Rich, confusing and beautifully written in every line." - Jonathan Lethem, author of Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn "The Grammar Architect is a book you could easily read twenty times and still find new things to love about it. Eaton has written one of the most original, funny, beautifully written, and thoroughly complex novels of our young century." - Mark Horan, Ghettoblaster Magazine, NYC, August 2006 "May well be the best Canadian novel of the year. This is the new." - Alex Good, Kitchener-Waterloo Record, October 2005 "An experiment worthy of Donald Barthelme at his most rascally... evidence of Eaton's status as one of Canada's most assured new writers." - Brian Joseph Davis, Eye Magazine, November 24, 2005 "Eaton has brilliantly managed to capture Hardy's style of writing in this book, with the long, beautifully-constructed sentences and elaborate phrasings that made up so much of Hardy's work... Gives one the feeling that this is an extremely-well-translated work instead of something written according to traditional English grammar rules. That is one of its strengths " - January Magazine, January 2006 "...a clever satirical gloss on the sort of grave-robbing and body-stitching at the heart of derivative works such as A Thousand Acres and The Hours." - The Globe and Mail, January 2006 "...a burst of intricate, lyrical, well-developed writing, of a quality almost meriting the arrogant back-cover assertion that this novel is "like a pop culture Gabriel Garcia Marquez's work." ...a distinctive literary voice emerges... " - Waterloo Imprint, January 2006 "...like being deluged by a tidal wave of words... Eaton is a sincere poet and each word is carefully chosen. " - Here Magazine, January 2006
Buy one: Available in any book store. Or order either the inactivist or The Grammar Architect online at www.insomniacpress.com today.y.
e-mail: chrisrulesbigtime@sympatico.ca
Kind words about Chris's first (2003): Required reading on two university courses! "This is an informal, visionary voice we don't hear enough of in CanLit..." - Alex Good, www.goodreports.net, February, 2004 "I not only want more people to read it but also more people to write books that are this interesting, fresh and enjoyable to read... [It will] threaten your whole idea about what it means to "read" because this book makes reading a two way street… This could be in a list of my favourite books." - Nick Lenco , nicklenco.com, January, 2004 "Once I started, I couldn't put it down--I was finished within twenty-four hours of straight reading. I would recommend it to most people." - The Mount Allison Argosy, November, 2003 "What any writer is after in some primary, essential way is a texture that is all his/her own. I hear Eaton’s texture in these pages, strident, assertive, commanding the turf, engaging me at once and sustaining the melody all the way. His style is constantly in motion, his characters define themselves by the very style that encloses them, and his larger subversive narrative voice sets them up like a malevolent straight man reversing the equation." - Lawrence Garber, author of Tales from the Quarter "Eaton’s prose drives by quickly, propelling the reader forward into a vivid VIPs-only advertising world." - The Mcgill Daily, November, 2003 "You will eat this book up with a side order of GMO-fries as you rest your picket sign at your feet." - ihaveanidea, November, 2003
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