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| Stunt is nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Stunt chosen by the the Globe & Mail as one of the top 100 books of the past year. Stunt was chosen by Quill & Quire as one of 15 books to remember from 2008 At once hypnotic and dazzling, Stunt is, quite simply, a feat. – Globe & Mail "I know there are readers who will adore it, who will see Eugenia and Immaculata and their parents and say, “That's my story; that's my life!” They will place Stunt under their pillows, and carry it to class, and cling to it as proof that they are not crazy. They will read this novel and see a world they know, and believe, for once, that maybe they can be okay too. And that, quite simply, is enough for me." – Bookslut "This surrealist coming-of-age novel – a shot of Catcher in the Rye with a One Hundred Years of Solitude chaser – is the perfect vehicle for Dey's caustic wit and trenchant observations...It's as if poet Anne Carson and satirist Mordecai Richler accidentally collided at a drunken PEN fundraiser to produce a mischievous, magical and observant girl-child." – Toronto Star "Stunt is mesmerizing, rewarding, and breathtaking. Dey never lets up, never writes simply, plainly, or boringly. Like Eugenia's nightfall, Dey's book is 'all dark majesty and menace,' and wonderful to read." – Quill & Quire, starred review "With Stunt, she has penned one of the most ambitious and original debut novels to come out of this town, or even out of this country, in some time. Read it." – Post City Magazine "It's a bit of a fever dream set in, of all places, Toronto. Somehow, Toronto filtered through the vivid imagination of Claudia Dey, has been transformed, a la Ondaatje, or even Gabriel Garcia Marquez, into a wild, raw, mysterious place filled with idiosyncratic characters." – Calgary Herald "Prepare for a monumental suspension of disbelief and a generous acceptance of the surreal and absurd—and prepare to receive a lot in return. ......It walks the tightrope, like Eugenia herself, between fantasy and reality, joyous and melancholic. Dey has created a world that defies definition and, in its deeply weird and totally beautiful storytelling, celebrates flights of imagination." – Time Out Chicago "Stunt is daring, poignant, full of abandon and abandonment, wistful and funny. Here are big characters, with big lives. Brilliant." – Lisa Moore "Stunt is a sacred carnival: the whiff of roosters wearing boxing gloves, the whimsy of a miniture marching band hidden in a well-loved purse. Dey's slight of hand is one mighty literary feat. – Michael Winter |
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