Idaho Winter

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Idaho Winter begins as the story of a boy with an extraordinarily painful existence. He is, through no fault of his own, loathed by everyone in the town where he lives. He meets Madison, the first person to ever show him empathy. When he learns that he is a character in a novel, he breaks free and imprisons his author while remaking his fictional world as he sees fit. The author escapes and sets out with his supporting characters to find a way to bring his novel's mind and heart together on a perilous and paradoxical journey.

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"[Burgess] proves himself to be a witty, lightning-quick conjurer of misanthropy in this brief, kaleidoscopic novel." --Publishers Weekly
"Idaho Winter is not just funny, it's supposed to be funny ... Burgess's novel, in fact, is one the finest parodies ever penned of the stereotypically didactic young adult (YA) novel." -- Maclean's Magazine
"Idaho's story is the most brilliantly terrifying dream you've ever had, compelling and funny at times; even the random seemingly impossible events make sense in the hands of Burgess ... Idaho Winter is absurd and acceptable at the same time; its prose is pleasurable and unnerving." -- Globe and Mail
"The world of Tony Burgess is savage and blackly funny ... It's a place where you shouldn't trust anybody, not even your narrator. This is not Alice Munro's small-town Canada. Burgess rips open the guts of Canadian literature, thankfully: someone's got to do it." -- Uptown Magazine

Author Bio

Tony Burgess is a writer who has published poetry, screenplays, criticism, and fiction. He is the author of Fiction for Lovers, The Hellmouths of Bewdley, and Pontypool Changes Everything, which was made into the award-winning movie Pontypool in 2009. He lives in Staynor, Ontario.