Description du livre
Shortlisted
for Best Cover Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!
On
the eve of his thirtieth birthday, ageing punk Lor Kowalski is unsure of his
sanity. He is haunted by hallucinogens and harbingers, strung out on broken
stories that he cannot piece together into a lucid whole. Forced to join his
old band from a life he’d rather forget, he is dragged north under the spell of
a mysterious ad for an Arctic festival tour. As the band members unspool across
the surreal snowscapes and frozen wastelands, rogue CSIS agents are hot on
their increasingly iced-over heels. But what are ageing punks to rogue agents?
Subversive and irredeemable, spectres from a past that must be erased
with extreme prejudice. Randy Nikkel Schroeder’s Arctic
Smoke combines coked-up magic realism with a wound-up
cyberpunk style.