Join
author Nathaniel G. Moore on
Friday, November 22nd at 7 with his dear friends Alexis O'Hara, Anisa
Cameron and Warren Auld for a short performance from
Savage 1986-2011
(including a short clip from the eponymous film supporting the book)
while New Order plays in the background.
Nate’s nervous mother chews gum at warp speed and has a bob that
resembles Darth Vader’s helmet. His icy father dabbles part-time in the
death trade at a funeral home after working for a decade in the
insurance racket. His older sister Holly is always lurking in the
shadows or away at school. Nate, a creative, messy, and anxious teen,
has chosen Randy Savage as his hero. As he finishes high school, the
world to which Savage belongs is quickly waning in popularity, and Nate
begins to see the wrestler’s downfall mirrored in his own life. But not
until the family dismantles for good in 1994 does Nate’s life truly
begin to fracture.
Savage 1986-2011 chronicles the middle-class implosion of Nate’s
nuclear family, bracketed by July 1986 — when he first saw Randy Savage
in person — and the wrestler’s sudden death in May 2011. When Savage
dies, Nate is freed from beliefs — once a source of beauty and escape —
that had come to constrict him, fusing him to a moribund past.
Described as a 2003 Noisemaker by the Montreal Mirror, Nathaniel G.
Moore is the author of four books including Wrong Bar (shortlisted for
the 2010 ReLit Award for best novel) and Let's Pretend We Never Met, a
poetic exhumation of the Latin poet Catullus and himself. His work has
appeared in magazines such as Matrix, This Magazine, Canadian
Literature, The Globe & Mail and Quill & Quire. Savage 1986-2011
is his latest book, which Rebecca Godfrey calls "immediately catchy,
thrilling and electric with an honest beauty and wild energy." while
Dave Bidini calls the novel "a glowing portrait of a city— my
city— and its people trying to find truth and love despite— but
sometimes because of— themselves." Moore lives and works in Toronto.
