Meet Tyrone Lock: born of farmers’ stock; overeducated, underemployed. An inveterate pick-nose and clandestine squeezer of Revels in the supermarket. Disaffected in a way that Adrian Mole would recognize (though as Tyrone takes pains to point out, he’s hardly a tortured artist; his BA was in Economics). Inexplicably involved with the lovely, pampered Miss Athena Till.
The young couple are preparing for their first trip abroad: the obligatory horizon-widening sojourn in Europe, the Land of the Forefathers and the Wellspring of Culture.
Except that this is an excursion that Tyrone would do anything to get out of. His horizons are plenty broad, thank you very much, and he’d rather spend his days taking walks with his dog, fly-fishing without a hook, and composing such melodious odes to his native land as: O Beaver Creek, In the Foothills of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, I would sooner have you.
First published in 1974 and now released for the first time in paperback, Lonesome Hero is a comic classic, the award-winning smartass novel that launched a spectacular writing career.
This new revised edition restores scenes deleted from the original edition the ’director’s cut.’ It also features an introduction by the inimitable Mark Anthony Jarman and an afterword by the author, who reflects how glad he is, looking back at his first novel, that Lonesome Hero still manages to embody the ironies of the era, "the fact that we often understood perfectly how cartoonish we were. The early ’70s was about avoiding work at all costs and trying to live amusingly during all one’s waking hours: about how weirdly far we would go to accomplish that."
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Fred Stenson is the author of thirteen books, including four novels Lonesome Hero, Last One Home, The Trade and Lightning. He is the recipient of the George Bugnet Novel Award, the City of Edmonton Book Prize and a Giller Prize nomination for The Trade, two AMPIA awards for best documentary script and the Canadian Authors Association Silver Medal for Lonesome Hero. He is the only two-time winner of the $25,000 Grant MacEwan Author's Prize. He lives in Calgary with his wife, the author and professor Pamela Banting. He has two children.
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