But that's not what Farm had planned for him. That piece of information gnaws at our narrator so bad, he will NEED to know if his mother is OK. She's about to be homeless and deported to Pier, right outside City. During a mating party (yep, you've read right), a particularly twisted potential partner announces the narrator that his mother is in trouble. The job sucks, the life sucks and the corporate culture of the place sucks balls. The narrator works in a place called Farm, in a distant, dystopian future. SWALLOWING A DONKEY'S EYE is a subversive little piece of literature. Because I'm about to say a few kind things myself. So I think Tremblay owes Thomas a beer or something. I like to think my reviews are good, but this one literally sold me the novel. I didn't know anything about Paul Tremblay, the author until reading Richard Thomas' review of SWALLOWING A DONKEY'S EYE at The Nervous Breakdown. So you know, the contrast is a little absurd. In Quebec, it's the prototypical name for older gentlemen, presumably logger, checkered-shirt wearing types with tree-trunk arms and a boisterous nature, who don't speak a word of English *. Paul Tremblay is a hilarious name for an American writer,but you have to be french Canadian to understand why it's funny.
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