Robert McGill
Auteur de A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life
A propos de l'auteur
Robert McGill is a novelist and associate professor of English at the University of Toronto.
Œuvres de Robert McGill
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- McGill, Robert
- Date de naissance
- 1976
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Wiarton, Ontario, Canada
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Études
- Oxford University (MA)
University of East Anglia
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 98
- Popularité
- #193,038
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 30
- ISBN
- 22
- Langues
- 2
The tight narrative comments broadly on the mishandling of the COVID pandemic and on migration, as infected people are relocated to another country to which they arrive pre-assimilated, without memories or history. Societal themes of family and success are framed by Regan’s relationship with her absent parents, her curtailed running career and related eating disorder, and her desire for human connection which ultimately overrules her desire to end it all.
Robert McGill has written a gruesomely witty story of one person’s experience, with wide-ranging implications for the rest of us.… (plus d'informations)