October 16, 2006
UNB Fredericton News Release: D747
Tina English, Communications and Marketing (506) 453-4793

Novelist, essayist and short story writer Lynn Coady will read from her newest novel Mean Boy on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 8 p.m. in the Alumni Memorial Hall, University of New Brunswick Fredericton. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Mean Boy, Ms. Coady’s fourth book, is a brilliant and furiously witty look at a creative writing class in a small-town New Brunswick university. The novel, known as Ms. Coady’s best and most ambitious to date, is “pungently realistic, bolstered by hilarious set-piece scenes” (The Globe & Mail).

A Cape Breton native, Ms. Coady attended Carleton University for her BA and received an MFA from the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, where she now resides. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her fiction. Her novel Strange Heaven was short listed for the Governor-General's Award for Fiction in 1998 and her short story collection Play the Monster Blind won the Canadian Authors’ Association's Jubilee Award for a short fiction collection in 2001.

The reading is sponsored by UNBF’s department of English, the University Bookstore and the Canada Council for the Arts.

For more information on the reading, contact Ross Leckie at 458-7395.

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