A book ostensibly about the Old Man's 2004-05 feud with the federal government for more transfer payments is - as voice of the cabinet minister claimed this morning - the fifth best selling book in the country. You can find the claim in other places, no doubt, but the Great Government Oracle of the Valley spouted that one this morning.
Curiously enough, this book does not appear at all on the Canadian best seller list printed by the Globe on Wednesday, October 13.
The Number Five book on the Globe and Mail's own soft-cover best seller list for non-fiction is a book titled A heartbreaking work of staggering genius. While the title may fit with Bill Rowe's own view of his latest magnum opus, this is not the book in question.
For some bizarre reason, a memoir by the original provincial ambassador to Hy's is listed on the Globe's hardcover non-fiction page.
The book has a soft cover.
Oh well.
Significant chunks of the book are fiction as well but that didn't stop them from listing it there either.
In any event, the book that was six months in the living and five years in the writing is listed with titles that seem oddly appropriate:
- Shit my Dad says is Number 6.
- Even silence has an end is Number 4.
- Assholes finish first is Number 3.
A book might be known, one thinks, by the company it keeps.
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