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Travel in the entertaining company of a man made of equal parts bullshit and inspiration, in what is ultimately a twisted panegyric to the power of strange music to change people from the inside out At turns funny and strangely sobering, this "found memoir" is a picaresque tale of inspired, heroic deceit, incompetence, and -- just possibly -- triumph. Follow the flailing escapades of maverick music manager Campbell Ouiniette at the Calgary Folk Festival, as he leaves a trail of empty liquor bottles, cigarette butts, bruised egos, and obliterated relationships behind him. His top headlining act has abandoned him for the Big Time. In a fit of self-delusion or pure genius (or perhaps a bit of both), Ouiniette devises an intricate scam, a last hurrah in an attempt to redeem himself in the eyes of his girlfriend, the music industry, and the rest of the world. He reveals his path of destruction in his own transparently self-justifying, expulsive, profane words, with digressions into the Edmonton hardcore punk rock scene, the Yugoslavian Civil War, and other epicentres of chaos.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Thriller / suspense

• Full title: Festival Man
• Author: Geoff Berner
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9781459707245
• ISBN: 1459707249
• ID: 05127025
• Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd
• Weight: 198 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. November 2013

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