{"product_id":"running-on-fumes-paperback-1","title":"Running on Fumes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristian Guay-Poliquin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJacob Homel\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the electricity inexplicably goes out nationwide, the mundanities of life gradually shift to the rigours of survival. In this post-apocalyptic setting, an unnamed mechanic jumps into his beat-up car and drives east, journeying 4,736 kilometres to reach his dying father. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the narrator's journey becomes one of essentials - gasoline, fresh water only in bottles, and gas-station food - and as the crisis engulfing his surroundings begins to weigh on him ever more, he seeks refuge in a woman, and later, with a fellow traveller he meets on the road. These two kindred souls join him on his path, though they seem to seek a different sort of redemption. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the road grows longer, and the narrator's exhaustion grows in kind, parallels are drawn between his own journey and Thesus's journey through the primeval Labyrinth. However, the beast that our narrator seeks to slay might not be one of flesh and horn and blood; instead, it is his own failing mental state and his thirst for the apocalypse around him. In the end, the obsession with which he pursues this beast will be his undoing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRunning on Fumes\u003c\/i\u003e, is a road novel that carries with it influences of the genre, with its storylines of redemption through distance travelled, often in a failing world that reflects the protagonist's interior. It is a hazy line that delineates whether the world is reflecting the narrator's state or whether the narrator's mindset is reflected by the world, and there remains a level of uncertainty on the truths the narrator speaks.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian Guay-Poliquin\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Saint-Armand in 1982. He is now developing a thesis project on the hunting narrative and also works in renovation. The pencil on his ear serves to mark his measures as much as it does to record his ideas. \u003ci\u003eLe fil des kilometers\u003c\/i\u003e (La Peuplade, 2013) is his first novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn and raised in Montreal, \u003cb\u003eJacob Homel\u003c\/b\u003e has translated or collaborated in the translation of a number of works, including Nelly Arcan's \u003ci\u003eHysteric\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBreakneck\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Battle of London\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Genet\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2012, he won the J.I. Segal Translation Prize for his translation of \u003ci\u003eA Pinch of Time\u003c\/i\u003e. He currently lives in Montreal.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 25, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772963455264,"sku":"9780889229754","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/dc29da3b2a1efa3a13934eac827c704e.webp?v=1780417325","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/running-on-fumes-paperback-1","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}