Civilising Canada
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Lowestoft Chronicle Press
Published: June 30, 2008
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780615212890
Subjects: fiction; travel writing; humor
Description: In October 2004, the critically despised playwright and journalist, Leo Lichy, announced his retirement from “civilised society” and embarked on adventures overseas. With the noble intention of “enlightening our largely educationally disadvantaged compatriots overseas,” he made North America his first port of call. Employed as a Cultural Correspondent by the popular newspaper Lowestoft Chronicle, his yearlong journey takes him across Canada and America on a whirlwind escape from his routine life of cocaine, caviar and film festivals. In place of these extravagances he encounters unemployment, heartbreak, poverty, ill-health, vagrancy and mental instability. Whether scampering away from a simmering Mexican woman cocking a pistol at his nether regions, kicking drunken beggars into the gutter for sport, or gorging on hard drugs and alcohol and fine exotic women, Leo’s behaviour always incites one’s passions. "Savagely funny"—Cecile Clambake, Lowestoft Chronicle