The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree

Josh Massey

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Set in the near future in the mountainous and fielded cusp between BC and Alberta, The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree by Josh Massey is the story of Jeffery Inkster, an ex-hipster-turned elk farmer. Inkster, whose goal is to live peacefully with his elk, harvesting their antlers, becomes embroiled in the political violence of oil-pipeline expansion.

Drawing from his experience working in the "Peace Country" of northern BC, Massey brings us the story of a community of artists and eccentrics who all become suspects in a series of pipeline bombings. But, amid the activism and counter-terrorism, there are other, more mysterious forces at play, forces that eat into the consciousness of all those involved.

Terrifying, hilarious, and suspenseful, this novel offers a satirical perspective of industrial society that will at once unsettle readers and present them with a cathartic release from the exasperation they might feel living in a civilization teetering towards environmental collapse.

Fans of metafiction, especially those who enjoy works with a thriller edge, and admirers of the works of writers Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges and filmmakers Christopher Nolan, David Cronenberg, and David Lynch, will appreciate this post-modern take on contemporary industrial and environmental politics through storytelling.

Book Details

Publisher: Book*hug Press
Publish Date: Oct 7th, 2015
Pages: 256
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.40in - 0.60in - 0.55lb
EAN: 9781771661263
Categories: • Satire• Literary

About the Author

Massey, Josh: - Josh Massey's fiction and poetry have been published in journals in Canada, Italy, the US and the UK. He is the author of the novel We Will All Be Trees (2009) and has won a Canadian Community Newspaper Award for his journalism. His literary film work has been screened at the Ottawa International Writers Festival, the Arts Wells Festival in BC and other events. Massey holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cultural Studies from McGill University, and a Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Northern British Columbia. Originally from Ottawa, Massey currently lives in Terrace, BC.

Praise for this book

Let My Elks Go Free: A Spotlight on The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree by Josh Massey --BC Bookworld

"Practically everything in Massey's novel is a skewed representation of reality, trapped somewhere between farce and academic criticism. There are strange and madcap characters...and locations with names such as PC Columbia, Cancougar, and Cowberta. Stylistically, the narrative is a melding of traditional prose, newspaper clippings, poetry as sales pitch, and even a hypnotic suggestion thrown in for good measure." --Publishers Weekly

"Terrace-based Josh Massey might be a visionary godsend." --Vancouver Sun

"In the present-day context of contentious pipeline politics, Massey explores the complexities of the conflicts while poking fun at it all....Part mystery-thriller, part documentary long poem, part dream-vision, part political manifesto, Plotline Bomber is original, quirky, and wonderfully inexplicable." --Northword Magazine

"Through elements of art, mythology and suspense, Massey creates a humorous yet unnerving satire about the turbulent sociopolitical and economic powers of Canada." --Maisonneuve

"Highly relevant to Canada's current extractivist policies, Massey offers us a glimpse of a future that may not be as far off as we would hope." --Apt 613

"The satire and hidden messages intertwined in Massey's words will challenge readers to question the seemingly obvious." --This Magazine

"Using prose poems, news blogs, documents and regular fictionalized text, Massey creates and records a bizarre world of the imagination. Or is it imaginary? Perhaps it's our future. Through the voices of a variety of eccentric characters, Massey makes a convincing case in this short, complex, entrancing novel that is part futurist fiction and part ecological manifesto." --Mark Frutkin, author of Fabrizio's Return, winner of the Trillium Book Award

"Like a kingbird perched on a northern pipeline hand wheel, Massey catches his stories from a source far removed from the espresso bars of the Information Age. He understands both these worlds, and as a satirist he unifies them, has us thinking not of others but as one." --Michael Turner, author of 8 X 10 and Hard Core Logo

"A brilliantly witty and incisive tale of our possible ecological near-future, rich in wordplay, exhilarating riffs, allusions and metafictional hijinks, yet filled with an understanding of humans and their complicities, allegiances, desires, and visions, this book . . . is a subtly compelling eco-thriller about the complexities and negotiations of living in a world balanced between capitalism and the environment. To paraphrase a line from the book, this novel reads like Thomas King, Anne Carson, and David Suzuki on brown acid." --Gary Barwin, author of I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457