The Shoe On The Roof Review

The novel exposes the unhealthy effects of his father s experimental ways.

The shoe on the roof review.

Is madness a choice. He s a humourist and he also wrote a fairly serious suspense thriller called 419 that won the scotiabank giller prize a few years back. His entire childhood was an experiment run by his father who is now a pioneer in the field. Now the only work of his that i ve read aside from his new novel up for review here is 419 which i didn t care for too much.

The shoe on the roof is a fast read and sometimes a fun one but left me feeling it could have been so much more. A while ago my father had deep brain stimulation surgery to help ease the symptoms of his parkinson s disease. The good points of the shoe on the roof. Thomas rosanoff s father is a psychiatrist who used his son as his own lab rat.

The main character thomas is a grad student trying to obtain his phd but is unable to chose a thesis. What happens is that surgeons put wires into your brain while you re awake. Will ferguson s the shoe on the roof is a tale for the times. Canada s will ferguson is known for two things.

Marcia kaye is an award winning journalist specializing in health issues. These are some of the questions posed by will ferguson in his. A review of will ferguson s the shoe on the roof. The shoe on the roof book cover.

Netgalley provided a copy of the epub in exchange for an honest review. Don t worry too much if you don t have a background in psychology going into this book. Can a person be driven sane through behaviour modification and tough love. In the shoe on the roof will ferguson s latest novel there are would be christs aplenty too.

Is a sense of oneness with god nothing more than a reaction to stimulation in a specific part of the brain. Reviews back to book reviews. The shoe on the roof. Review by jennifer mccartney.

Three of them wander.