Bøger af Ian Truman

"All they really wanted to do was fuck around, be creative, listen to music, skateboard or go to shows. People kept telling them growing up was supposed to be tough but it's not like they didn't know that already. Timmy had listened. Timmy had finished school and got himself a job. That didn't stop him from running his van into a pillar one night so what was the fucking use? Nobody seemed to have an answer." Conor and his friends are growing up in a one factory town where the most likely employment prospect is the assembly line or the farmer's coop. Aiming higher than the local college, Conor finds himself spending more and more time in downtown Montreal, discovering himself through punk and hardcore music. But as his girlfriend wants nothing to do with the city and his friend Jake loses his brother when the factory closes, Conor's ambitions could require him to burn bridges he might not be ready to burn. With A Teenage Suicide, Ian wanted to write a story about kids making decisions and kids making mistakes. Stylistically, it is fair to mention influences of Truman Capote and Mordecai Richler. Imagine of the "cold-hard-fact" descriptions of In Cold Blood mixed with the realistic and witty dialogue of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. Ian Truman is a hardcore kid turned writer. He proudly claims to be from a working class family and has been straight edge and vegetarian for at least a decade now. He hopes to bring the passion, verve and dedication of hardcore into the art form of the novel. Born and raised in Montreal, he is a graduate of Concordia University's creative writing program. A Teenage Suicide is his third novel. "Ian Truman doesn't lecture young minds. He rather speaks with them as he explains the beauties and the hardships of adult life in their own words. A TEENAGE SUICIDE will fascinate the young and bring a wave of nostalgia to the old better than a cool summer night can." - Benoit Lelièvre, Dead End Follies

When Cillian Kennedy's body was fished out of the canal, no one believed his death was due to natural causes. But when the police wrote it off as an accidental death, four of his friends and family roamed the city in the search of any clue that may lead to the killer. Answers were found down dead end roads, on the edge of the industrial harbour front, in an abandoned building now a crack den, through obscure networks of anti-racist skinheads, the racist Heritage Front, former gay bashers, the flailing Irish mob and the Mohawk MMA circuit. Featuring some of Montreal's most notorious neighbourhoods, and told in a uniquely gritty raconteur voice, Grand Trunk and Shearer offers more than the typical run-of-the-mill mystery novel. At a crossroads between noir, private eye and literary fiction, it is a book that will please those who have come to ask more of the genre with profound characterization, down to earth style, minimalist setting, believable violence and flawless dialogue. Praise for GRAND TRUNK AND SHEARER: "D'Arcy Kennedy's search for his brother's killer is a gut-wrenching trip into a world of people left behind by gentrification, forgotten by changing politics and trying to hang onto what little family they have left. It's authentic, it's raw, and it's got heart. It's a trip worth taking." -John McFetridge, author of A Little More Free

Gentrification is moving in hard and fast in Montreal's South-Western districts. D'Arcy Kennedy finds himself out of breath, out of a job and raising a kid in a small home meant for another era. As the bulldozers take away entire chapters of his life, he turns to old acquaintances for work, leaning in on his hard-earned reputation as a good PI to find employment with the Irish mafia. But even organized crime is struggling to keep up with the changing landscape of the City. Weed is going legal, trust funds are pushing realtors and people who would have not dared cross the Irish not so long ago now defy them carelessly. Navigating his past and staking his future on this new life, D'Arcy Kennedy will have to thread a razor thin line between the law, loyalty and his own family if he wants a place for him and his own at the end of it all. Praise for DOWN WITH THE UNDERDOGS: "A working class family man strikes a deal with the devil in Ian Truman's fast-paced, volatile Down with the Underdogs. The result is class warfare on the streets of Montreal. Truman offers an unflinching portrait of a city caught in the throes of gentrification, and one person's struggle to fight back. An excellent read." -Sam Wiebe, author of the Wakeland novels. "Truman captures life on the edges-of culture, of language, of the legal and illegal, of the sane and the mad. And he tells a great story in the process." -Warren Moore, author of Broken Glass Waltzes