Malarky, Anakana Schofield
Malarky, Anakana Schofield
List: $14.95 | Sale: $10.47
Club: $7.47

Malarky

Author: Anakana Schofield

Narrator: Anakana Schofield

Unabridged: 7 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Published: 03/31/2020


Synopsis

Our Woman refuses to be sunk by what life is about to serve her. She’s just caught her son Jimmy in the barn with another man. She’s been accosted by Red the Twit, who claims to have done the unmentionable with her husband. And now her son’s gone and joined the only group that will have him: an army division on its way to Afghanistan.

Setting aside her prim and proper ways, Our Woman promptly embarks on an odyssey of her own – one that forces her to look grief in the eye and come face-to-face with the mad agony of longing.

About The Author

ANAKANA SCHOFIELD is the author of the acclaimed, Giller Prize-shortlisted novel Martin John (2015), which was also a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize in the UK, a New York Times Editors' Choice, and named a best book of the year by the Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, National PostSunday Business PostToronto Star, and The Irish Times, among others. Her debut novel Malarky (2012) won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction in the United States, and was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her writing and reviews have appeared in The GuardianThe Irish TimesThe Globe and MailNational PostLondon Review of Books blog, and The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Krista on June 26, 2017

Inadequate: The inadequate molester is the sex offender who least resembles social and behavioural norms. He is characterized as a social misfit, an isolate, who appears unusual or eccentric. He may be mentally ill and prefers non-threatening sexual partners. Martin John, the novel, is an uncomfo......more

Goodreads review by Peter on October 31, 2016

I was surprised to read some reviews describing this book as a comedy. Though it contains a number of hilarious scenes, to me it is primarily a sad and disturbing portrait of a vastly troubled mind. But whatever about the categorization of the book, Martin John Gaffney is a character that will not b......more

Goodreads review by Daisy on December 03, 2022

A phenomenal book. Audacious in the subject matter and in its structure which confounds the reader’s feelings about the eponymous character. Initially MJ is a sympathetic character, forced from his native Ireland to a London by ‘that thing’ and repeatedly told by his mother to work only nights, to n......more

Goodreads review by Doug on October 24, 2020

Not really sure what to make of this; its nomination for the Goldsmiths Prize (for innovation in literature) makes sense, as the style is fairly unique - but innovative does not necessarily equate to excellence, and in this case I was more bored than shocked (perhaps becoming numb to sexual predatio......more

Goodreads review by Paul on November 02, 2018

Martin John starts with the rather striking opening page: "Index 1. Martin John has made mistakes. 2. Check my card. 3. Rain will fall. 4. Harm was done 5. It put me in the Chair." These 5 "refrains", as well as the disjointed narrative style, will recur throughout the novel. Shortlisted for the 201......more