Aubrey McKee, Alex Pugsley
Aubrey McKee, Alex Pugsley
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Aubrey McKee

Author: Alex Pugsley

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 12 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/02/2020


Synopsis

I am from Halifax, saltwater city, a place of silted genius, sudden women, figures floating in all waters.
“People from Halifax are all famous,” my sister Faith has said. “Because everyone in Halifax knows each other’s business.”

From basement rec rooms to midnight railway tracks, Action Transfers to Smarties boxes crammed with joints,
from Paul McCartney on the kitchen radio to their furious teenaged cover of The Ramones, Aubrey McKee and his
familiars navigate late adolescence amidst the old-monied decadence of Halifax. An arcana of oddball angels, Alex
Pugsley’s long-awaited debut novel follows rich-kid drug dealers and junior tennis brats, émigré heart surgeons and
small-time thugs, renegade private school girls and runaway children as they try to make sense of the city into which
they’ve been born. Part coming-of-age-story, part social chronicle, and part study of the myths that define our growing
up, Aubrey McKee introduces a breathtakingly original new voice

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ian on September 06, 2020

Alex Pugsley’s first novel, Aubrey McKee, depicts the first 20+ years of the book’s eponymous protagonist, who grows up in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the 1970s and early 1980s. In 14 richly imagined sections, Aubrey narrates his story in a lively, warm and self-deprecating manner, along the way introdu......more

Goodreads review by Bruce on June 22, 2020

Outstanding. Has to be the favourite for the 2020 Giller.......more

Goodreads review by Elderberrywine on July 07, 2023

Aubrey is the protagonist in this coming of age tale, set in the early ‘70s. I was definitely getting Catcher in the Rye vibes, I have to admit. The timing isn’t all that far off, only about a decade or so later, but the setting is a far grittier port city than New York ever was - Halifax, Nova Scot......more

Goodreads review by Chris on February 07, 2024

This is the story of the titled character and his monied journey through adolescence into young adulthood. We are presented with an assortment of characters, whom I found predictable and a little boring, but almost and I emphasise almost, rescued by the family dynamic. Four sisters populate this nov......more

Goodreads review by Lucy on March 23, 2021

As the title implies, Aubrey McKee is the main character in this novel. Halifax is the next most prominent character. As a young boy Aubrey delivers newspapers in the South End. As a young teen he and his friends go to the Oxford Theatre and the King of Donairs. As a young adult he hangs out at the......more