{"product_id":"the-plotline-bomber-of-innisfree-9781771661263","title":"The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree","description":"Set in the near future in the mountainous and fielded cusp between BC and Alberta, \u003ci\u003eThe Plotline Bomber of Innisfree\u003c\/i\u003e by Josh Massey is the story of Jeffery Inkster, an ex-hipster-turned elk farmer. Inkster, whose goal is to live peacefully with his elk, harvesting their antlers, becomes embroiled in the political violence of oil-pipeline expansion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing from his experience working in the \"Peace Country\" of northern BC, Massey brings us the story of a community of artists and eccentrics who all become suspects in a series of pipeline bombings. But, amid the activism and counter-terrorism, there are other, more mysterious forces at play, forces that eat into the consciousness of all those involved. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTerrifying, hilarious, and suspenseful, this novel offers a satirical perspective of industrial society that will at once unsettle readers and present them with a cathartic release from the exasperation they might feel living in a civilization teetering towards environmental collapse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFans of metafiction, especially those who enjoy works with a thriller edge, and admirers of the works of writers Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges and filmmakers Christopher Nolan, David Cronenberg, and David Lynch, will appreciate this post-modern take on contemporary industrial and environmental politics through storytelling. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Plotline Bomber of Innisfree: \u003c\/i\u003e\"Using prose poems, news blogs, documents and regular fictionalized text, Massey creates and records a bizarre world of the imagination. Or is it imaginary? Perhaps it's our future. Through the voices of a variety of eccentric characters, Massey makes a convincing case in this short, complex, entrancing novel that is part futurist fiction and part ecological manifesto.\" --Mark Frutkin, author of \u003ci\u003eFabrizio's Return, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the Trillium Book Award \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Like a kingbird perched on a northern pipeline hand wheel, Massey catches his stories from a source far removed from the espresso bars of the Information Age. He understands both these worlds, and as a satirist he unifies them, has us thinking not of others but as one.\" --Michael Turner, author of \u003ci\u003e8 X 10\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHard Core Logo\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A brilliantly witty and incisive tale of our possible ecological near-future, rich in wordplay, exhilarating riffs, allusions and metafictional hijinks, yet filled with an understanding of humans and their complicities, allegiances, desires, and visions, this book . . . is a subtly compelling eco-thriller about the complexities and negotiations of living in a world balanced between capitalism and the environment. To paraphrase a line from the book, this novel reads like Thomas King, Anne Carson, and David Suzuki on brown acid.\" --Gary Barwin, author of \u003ci\u003eI, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Book*hug Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771661263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/31\/2015\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Josh Massey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43124497121461,"sku":"9781771661263","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9c4a206b-936f-4cd6-b084-a43b0ef6448a.jpg?v=1694553295","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-plotline-bomber-of-innisfree-9781771661263","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}