Meet Author Colin McAdam: A Hospice Fundraiser

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Friday, February 10th, 2012
10:00 AM

Colin McAdam’s novel FALL was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2009 and
won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.

His debut novel SOME GREAT THING won the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel
Award and was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

McAdam is widely recognized for originality of voice and pitch-perfect observation.
He will be discussing his work and reading from his latest novel, a story about
chimpanzees, which his publisher, at the literary imprint Hamish Hamilton, has
described as “unlike anything she has ever read before – it is simultaneously inventive, heartbreaking and smart. Readers will be transported by the novel and never want to return.”

Colin McAdam was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Denmark, England and
Barbados, as well as in several cities in Canada. He studied English and Classics
at McGill University and the University of Toronto, and received his PhD in English
Literature from Cambridge University in England. He has written for Harper’s Magazine
and The Walrus. He lives in Montreal.

Praise for SOME GREAT THING: "A stunning debut novel...There is both a breathy
intimacy and a grand sweep to Some Great Thing...It is a powerful, poetic, bawdily
funny, and tenderly sad novel." O: The Oprah Magazine

"Appearing from nowhere, bursting with energy, here is a character-driven novel to
reinvigorate Canadian fiction." The Walrus

Praise for FALL:

“There's a smattering of Lord of the Flies...and an undercurrent of Catcher in the
Rye...The often stream-of-consciousness style of this coming-of-age story is easily on a par with these classics.” The Globe and Mail

“McAdam offers a portrait of male adolescence that’s both empathetic and
stylistically ‘daring’” National Post

Tickets will not be sold at the door as there is limited seating for this event .
Refreshments will be served

For Tickets please call Oceanside Hospice: 250 752-0000
For further information call: 250 752-4639
All Proceeds of this event are for Oceanside Hospice