Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} No Relation by Terry Fallis ISBN 13: 9780771036163. In his fourth novel, winner of the 2011 Canada Reads competition and "CanLit's crowned king of chuckles" ( Telegraph-Journal ) Terry Fallis's sharp, funny wit takes readers into the world of identity, inheritance, and belonging, begging the question: What's in a name? This is the story of a young copywriter in New York City. He's worked at the same agency for fifteen years, and with a recent promotion under his belt, life is good. Then, one morning this copywriter finds himself unceremoniously fired from his job, and after he catches his live-in girlfriend moving out of their apartment a couple hours later, he's also single. Believe it or not, these aren't the biggest problems in this copywriter's life. There's something bigger, something that has been haunting him his whole life, something that he'll never be able to shake. Meet Earnest Hemmingway. What's in a name? Well, if you share your moniker with the likes of some of the most revered, infamous, and sometimes dreaded names in history, plenty. This is Earnest's lifelong plight, but something more recent is on his plate: His father is pressuring him to come home and play an active role in running the family clothing business. And as a complex familial battle plays out, Earnest's inherited name leads him in unexpected directions. Wry, clever, and utterly engaging, No Relation is Terry Fallis at the top of his form. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. TERRY FALLIS grew up in Toronto and earned an engineering degree from McMaster University. Drawn to politics at an early age, he worked for cabinet ministers both at Queen's Park and in Ottawa. His first book, The Best Laid Plans, began as a podcast, then was self-published, won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, was re-published by McClelland & Stewart to great reviews, and was crowned the 2011 winner of CBC's Canada Reads as "the essential Canadian novel of the decade." His follow-up, The High Road, was a finalist for the 2011 Leacock Medal. A skilled public speaker, Terry Fallis is also cofounder of the public relations agency Thornley Fallis. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two children. Follow him on Twitter: @TerryFallis. The author lives in Toronto. · "One of CanLit's crowned king of chuckles, Terry Fallis hits stratospheric heights with his latest well-balanced and unpredictable satire." -- Telegraph-Journal · "Not too many Canucks have ventured to write humorous books. There is Stephen Leacock, of course. And Robertson Davies cranked out a couple . . . Count Terry Fallis among the few to achieve success at the form." -- Ottawa Citizen. Terry Fallis, Novelist. “Terry Fallis is fast becoming a master of fiction writing. Once again in No Relation , Fallis employs his understated whimsy and sense for irony in a hilarious chronicle… What delightful lunacy Fallis has concocted here, with a dollop of intrigue and even romance.” Montreal Gazette. “Fallis employs an easygoing yet compelling writing style. So what’s in a name? When it’s Terry Fallis, you know it means a good book.” National Post. “Terry Fallis writes with a light touch and fine sense of the inherent humanity of humour, while still addressing one of the biggest questions we all have to face: Who are you? Who are you really?” Will Ferguson, author of 419, winner of the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize. “Born of a cheerful mood and a clever mind, Terry Fallis’s No Relation is an endearing book with a big heart.” Trevor Cole, author of Practical Jean, winner of the 2011 Leacock Medal. “Terry Fallis is a brilliant and very funny writer who also understands the human heart. His words will split your side on one page, and put a lump in your throat on the next. You’ll not only come to like his quirky characters, you’ll want to meet them, and take care of them, too. Terry Fallis is a writer to watch, and more importantly, to read.” BKMT READING GUIDES. In his fourth novel, winner of the 2011 Canada Reads competition and "CanLit's crowned king of chuckles" ( Telegraph-Journal ) Terry Fallis's sharp, funny wit takes readers into the world of identity, inheritance, and belonging, begging the question: What's in a name? This is the story of a young copywriter in New York City. He's worked at the same agency for fifteen years, and with a recent promotion under his belt, life is good. Then, one morning this copywriter finds himself unceremoniously fired from his job, and after he catches his live-in girlfriend moving out of their apartment a couple hours later, he's also single. Believe it or not, these aren't the biggest problems in this copywriter's life. There's something bigger, something that has been haunting him his whole life, something that he'll never be able to shake. Meet Earnest Hemmingway. What's in a name? Well, if you share your moniker with the likes of some of the most revered, infamous, and sometimes dreaded names in history, plenty. This is Earnest's lifelong plight, but something more recent is on his plate: His father is pressuring him to come home and play an active role in running the family clothing business. And as a complex familial battle plays out, Earnest's inherited name leads him in unexpected directions. Wry, clever, and utterly engaging, No Relation is Terry Fallis at the top of his form. No Relation. Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. At first, when I started this book, I thought, "Great. I don't think I'm going to like this one." In terms of subject matter, a copywriter who's lost his job and his girlfriend in a single day didn't initially seem promising, especially compared to Canadian politics and the space program (which featured in Fallis's first three books). But very soon No Relation turned into an interesting exploration of family, both the kind you are born with and the kind you make for yourself, and a peculiar phenomenon referred to in the book as "namefame" -- what is it like to go through life with the same name as a famous person? How does that influence your perception of yourself? In the protagonist's case, he thinks that being called Earnest Hemmingway (note the spelling) might be wreaking havoc on his dream of becoming a writer; maybe the ghost of Ernest Hemingway is haunting him and blocking his writing. My favourite parts of this book involved Hemmingway's "namefame" friends; it's wonderful to see them all support each other and discover talents they never knew they had. Hemmingway's own storyline was sufficiently rewarding, too, and to be fair the story did get going fairly quickly after I had internally expressed my misgivings. If you want warm and light-hearted, then No Relation is a reasonable choice. ( ) We all feel sometimes that we are trapped in our lives. ‘Who we are’, ‘what we do’ and ‘who we are with’ are phrases that seem to depress us into thinking that we are stuck in a rut of unhappiness. And it sometimes takes a good book or a good network of friends to help us see out of that rut of unhappiness. Terry Fallis has written a book about somebody who finds a good network of friends to help him out of a rut of unhappiness. And No Relation is a pleasurable book to read. Terry Fallis Books In Order. Terry Fallis is an award winning writer from Canada, who is popular for writing literature & fiction, political, and satirical novels. He has 6 of his books listed in the national bestsellers. Author Fallis is in contract with Penguin Random House publication’s McClelland & Stewart publishing, which has published all of his novels. He gained success and fame with his very first book and went on to win the Stephen Leacock Medal in 2008 for Humor. Fallis’s first novel also helped him win the Canada Reads in 2011. It was also labeled as the decade’s essential novel of the Canadian origin. The CBC even aired a 6-part TV mini-series based on that book. After the mini-series earned excellent reviews, the book was selected for one of Vancouver’s stage musicals. The next two books that followed in Fallis’ career were finalists for the Leacock Medal. Over the course of his writing career, author Fallis has been rewarded with several prestigious awards and honorary mentions, including the Evergreen Award from the Library Association of Ontario, Libris Award, Leacock Medal, etc. Author Fallis was born in Toronto, Canada. He completed his graduation from the McMaster University and obtained a bachelor’s degree in Engineering. He was highly involved in the area of student politics during his university days. Fallis has even held the post of a student union’s president. Following his graduation, he started a career in the field of federal politics. Fallis has worked as a strategist for the Liberal Party. He was mainly involved in works related to the legislative staffs and campaigns of Jean Lapierre, Michael Ignatieff, Jean Chretien, Robert Nixon, etc. Author Fallis co-founded a social-digital media and public relations agency called Thornley Fallis in 1995. He used to operate this agency from its branches is Ottawa and Toronto. In 2014, author Fallis was given the LW Shemilt Award by McMaster for being a distinguished alumni. Fallis’s written works have been praised by numerous fellow authors and critics all across the world. His works are often compared with the likes of Mordecai Richler, Robertson Davies, and John Irving, who, according to Fallis have influenced him a lot during his initial days as a novelist. Fallis has a deep feeling of gratitude towards his fans and believes it is only because of their constant motivation that he has been able to achieve so much success in his career. Author Fallis hopes to come up with many more interesting stories in the years to come and entertain his fans more than ever. The debut book written by author Terry Fallis is entitled ‘The Best Laid Plans’. It was released by the McClelland and Stewart publication in the year 2008. The book features the characters of Angus McLintock and Daniel Addison in the lead roles. Author Fallis has done the novel’s setting in Canada. At the start of the book’s story, it is shown that Daniel Addison works as Liberal Leader’s speech writer. He seems to be going through a bad phase in life. After working for years on the Parliament Hill, Daniel Addison looks embittered and burnt. He receives a huge blow when he finds his girlfriend in bed with the leader of the Liberal House. And with the turn of events that follow next, Daniel ends up quitting a job, finding a tenure English teaching job at the Ottawa University, and starts living on one of Cumberland’s boat houses. But, before Daniel could go on to start his new job, he is required to find a right candidate for running in favor of the Liberals in Cumberland. This appears to be a difficult job for him as the current Conservatives’ representative is very popular and no Liberals’ representative has won against him in the last hundred years. Luckily for him, Daniel sees a good hope in his landlord, Angus McLintock. Angus works as professor of engineering at Ottawa University and is assigned to teach English to the engineers. Daniel doesn’t like the idea of teaching English in an engineering class. Later, the situations go through so much of changes that Daniel finds himself teaching English in place of Angus and Angus runs for the Cumberland seat for the Liberals. No one including Daniel Addison have a hope of winning, but with a shocking series of events, Angus wins the election and becomes a Cumberland MP. Now, Daniel faces a more difficult job of helping Angus get used to the life of Canadian politics and overcome all the difficulties in his path. The book provides an enjoyable read and appears to be a great political satire. Author Fallis’ style of writing is funny and intelligent. His description of delightful characters and interesting settings helped the novel become a great success. Another very famous book of author Fallis is called ‘The High Road’. It was published by the Emblem Editions publication in 2010. In this particular book, Fallis once again described the chief characters as Daniel Addison and Angus McLintock. This book is yet another funny satire on the political scene of Canada. Fallis has continued the story from where he had ended the previous one and has depicted that Angus McLintock doesn’t seem to enjoy his role of amateur politician and decides to speak out the truth. At the beginning of the story of the book, it is mentioned that Daniel Addison hopes to make an easy escape from his job of being a political aide. But, Angus McLintock makes up his mind to not let him go so easily. After defeating the previous government, Angus McLintock ropes in Daniel Addison to plan and execute the next campaign. Even though Daniel doesn’t like to walk down the same path again, he forced to do so as Angus warns that he will their truth out in the open. Daniel Addison begins working on planning for a tough battle against a notorious Conservative representative named Fox, who is known for playing dirty tactics. Angus and Daniel take the decision of going by High Road and turn this contest into an exciting race. They overcome all odds by going through hilarious twists & turns, ups & downs, and a break-in. This book also appears wildly entertaining with its loud comedy and satirical set up. Once again, Fallis’s writing looks funny and thought provoking at the same time. His description of interesting characters, intriguing storyline, exciting settlings, etc., were all liked by the readers from all over the globe. They praised him with excellent reviews. Even many critics appreciated Fallis for his work. All such appreciations motivated him to write a few more satirical stories in the following years.