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In the City of Pigs
In the City of Pigs | André Forget
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A failed musician obsessed with avant-garde art enters a shadowy world where bohemian excess meets the avaricious interests of a real estate cabal. Alexander Otkazov is finished with Montreal. Having wasted his youth on the love of art, he’s ready for a life of anonymous condo towers and profitable boredom. But when he moves to Toronto, he is forced into a monkish existence by the unforgiving pressures of the city — until he stumbles across a story about an ambitious experimental music collective that could be his ticket to a better job and a better life. Desperate to prove himself as a journalist, Alexander chases answers that take him from Forest Hill mansions to the bottom of Halifax Harbour, moving ever deeper into a shadowy world of amorphous real estate deals, creative megalomania, and finance capitalism, where avant-garde art is simply another mask for big money. In order to unravel the threads tying everything he loves to everything he hates, he will have to confront his own most sordid desires and the lengths he is willing to go to achieve his dreams of an easy life. A RARE MACHINES BOOK
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Lindy
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Does making art necessitate a deal with the devil? A former musician tries to navigate a new future for himself, without really knowing what it is he wants. Funny, dark and socially-aware, this novel is about the funding of cultural arts in our society and also the issue of affordable housing in cities like Toronto. I really enjoyed it. #shadowGiller2022 #CanLit

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Lindy
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“God is the throbbing hum of an inhumanly low frequency, a bass note that sustains the universe.â€
This part of the novel is about someone who appears to think along the lines of Joachim-Ernst Berendt, who wrote Nada Brahma, which I read a very long time ago but has stuck with me.

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Lindy
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… the jagged shards of glass plunging through the gothic facades of museums …

(Internet image of the Royal Ontario Museum)

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In theory, I was fully in favour of “burning it all down,†as people liked to say. But I couldn‘t quite bridge the distance between the metaphor and reality. Arsonists don‘t tend to leave things better than they found them.

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Lindy
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Nice weather for late September, so I did my Friday Reads outdoors:

Friday Reads September 23: #GillerPrize #Trans+ #LGBTQIA+ #audiobooks #CanLit #ArtWorld #booktube
https://youtu.be/Fv9BjJLLIGw

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He spoke with a bleating home counties accent, and had the kind of round English face that looks like a bowl of porridge an unwell person has spat into.
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LeahBergen That‘s harsh. 🤣 2y
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