Mahatma Grafton is a disillusioned university graduate burdened with a famous name, and suffering from the curse of his generation -- a total lack of interest in the state of the world. The son of a retired railway porter from Winnipeg, he returns home for a job as a reporter with The Winnipeg Herald. Soon Mahatma is scoping local stories of murder and mayhem, breaking a promise to himself to avoid writing victim stories.
As Mahatma is unexpectedly drawn into the inflammatory issue of French-language rights in Manitoba, with all its racial side-channels, he is surprised to find that he has a social conscience. Combating his bossâs flair for weaving hysteria into his stories, Mahatma learns that to stay afloat he must remain true to himself.
Populated with colourful characters -- including an unlikely welfare crusader, a burned-out fellow reporter, a French-language-rights activist, and a visiting journalist from Cameroon -- Some Great Thing is a fascinating portrait of a major urban newspaper and a deeply perceptive story of one manâs coming of age.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Author : Hill, Lawrence
Language : English
Published :2009-11-03
Number Of Pages : 336
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 1554686946
ISBN-13 : 9781554686940
Item weight : 0.7 lb
Dimensions : 1.2 in x 5.5 in x 8.1 in
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