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Jack Hodgins begins The Invention of the World with a ferry worker waving you aboard a ship that will take you not only to Vancouver Island but into a world of magic. The far west coast of Canada has always been regarded as a "land's end" where the eccentrics of the world come to plot out the last best utopia. Hodgins both invents a world and shows how we continually invent that world in all its multiplicity. Past and present intermingle while hilarious farce rubs up against epic tragedy. Intertwined are a love story, a portrait of a nineteenth-century village, a clash between wild loggers and weight-watching town folk who have to wear a pig when they fail to meet their weight goals. Pagan myths rub shoulders with the harsh pioneer days of the British Columbia rainforest. As always with Hodgins this novel is based in character and characters. At the centre of the mystery is Donal Keneally, the mad Irish messiah who eighty years ago persuaded an entire Irish village to emigrate to Canada, there to become his slaves in the Revelations Colony of Truth. His heir is Maggie Kyle and her collection of boarders in the old Colony of Truth building. Here truly is a novel that is itself an invention of the world.
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Jack Hodgins grew up in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, and taught high school in Nanaimo before moving to teach in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. His numerous publications include Spit Delaneys Island, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne, Broken Ground, and The Master of Happy Endings. His newest novel, Cadillac Cathedral (to appear in spring 2014) began as a commissioned song story for Chor Leoni, which is to be sung in concert in January 2014. He was so taken with the story that he expanded it into a full-length novel. Hodgins has taught writing workshops in Spain, Australia, and Germany, as well as in several provinces in Canada. His work has won several awards, including the Governor Generals Award, the Ethel Wilson Prize, the Canada-Australia Prize, and the Victoria City Butler Prize. He has been awarded three honorary degrees, and in 2010 was inducted into the Order of Canada. He and his wife Dianne live in Victoria.
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