Fiction
Dumb-Show
by Fawn Parker
Description
A controversial professor of political science at a Canadian university rises to power when his political views divide the student body. Two siblings develop isolated personal relationships with the professor, and find themselves spiralling to infamy alongside him.
A satirical campus novel, Dumb-Show shrewdly confronts the cultural politics of masculinity through a narrative that twists the structure of Henry IV, shadowing the rise and fall of a corrupt king, and interrogating a woman’s internal search to power.
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Reviews
“Parker’s sensibility is contemporary, smart and funny; fans of auto-fiction by international writers like Ben Lerner or Elif Batuman will love her.”
—Joan Thomas, winner of the 2019 Governor General’s Award (Fiction) for Five Wives
"I have long admired Fawn Parker's work. In Dumb-Show, Parker demonstrates the contradictions and complications of desire and disgust in a lustful, cynical Toronto that is both worthy of her Shakespearean inspiration and entirely her own. This is literature made from flesh, messy and bloody and exacting and haunting."
—André Babyn, author of Evie of the Deepthorn
"Vivid and vicious, Fawn Parker's Dumb-Show holds nothing back in its hilarious attack on modern academia. With a sharp eye for ironic details and striking, smooth sentences, Dumb-Show stays with you long after it's been put down."
—Adnan Khan, author of There Has to Be a Knife
Author Biography
Dumb-Show is Fawn Parker’s second novel with ARP Books. Her short story Feed Machine was long-listed for the 2020 Journey Prize.
She was the recipient of the Adam Penn Gilders Award for Fiction and Concordia University’s Irving Layton Award for Fiction.
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- Publisher ARP Books
- Publication Date October 2021
- ISBN/Identifier 9781927886564
- Publication Country or regionCanada
- FormatPaperback
- Pages240
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2021
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