Sweet Grass by Andy Juniper

$20.00

Sweet Grass is a slick, comic romp chronicling the bitter-sweet love and bungled life of Booker, a failing, floundering metropolitan journalist, a man perched precariously on the edge. Sweet Grass marks the emergence of a wonderful, wry voice in the rich Canadian comic tradition of Leacock and Richler.

Sweet Grass is a slick, comic romp chronicling the bitter-sweet love and bungled life of Booker, a failing, floundering metropolitan journalist, a man perched precariously on the edge. Sweet Grass marks the emergence of a wonderful, wry voice in the rich Canadian comic tradition of Leacock and Richler.

Testimonials

“I’ve read (Sweet Grass) and, to tell you the truth, I laughed aloud… Like that famous short story by Leacock about the visit to the bank, or like certain aspects of Walter Mitty’s secret life, the description really captures everyone’s shared experience of public embarrassments.” – Daniel Richler, Author of Kicking Tomorrow

”Reviewing Sweet Grass, Andy Juniper’s critically acclaimed 1994 novel, The Hamilton Spectator had high praise for the author’s “witty narration” and his “keen ear for dialogue.” Books in Canada said “some of the novel’s best laughs come from the dead-on satire of the late 20th-century journalism in decline…”