The Shoe On The Roof Review

In the shoe on the roof will ferguson s latest novel there are would be christs aplenty too.

The shoe on the roof review.

The shoe on the roof book cover. Marcia kaye is an award winning journalist specializing in health issues. The main character thomas is a grad student trying to obtain his phd but is unable to chose a thesis. A review of will ferguson s the shoe on the roof.

The novel exposes the unhealthy effects of his father s experimental ways. These are some of the questions posed by will ferguson in his. Three of them wander. The shoe on the roof focuses heavily on psychological disorders and the brain itself.

The good points of the shoe on the roof. There is quite a bit of information about the brain and psychology but it s written in really accessible language and doesn t feel a bit like an info dump. Can a person be driven sane through behaviour modification and tough love. Will ferguson s the shoe on the roof is a tale for the times.

Is madness a choice. Reviews back to book reviews. Netgalley provided a copy of the epub in exchange for an honest review. Is a sense of oneness with god nothing more than a reaction to stimulation in a specific part of the brain.

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. Don t worry too much if you don t have a background in psychology going into this book. Will ferguson s novel the shoe on the roof is a truly original look at the relationship between son and father.

Canada s will ferguson is known for two things. The shoe on the roof. What happens is that surgeons put wires into your brain while you re awake. A while ago my father had deep brain stimulation surgery to help ease the symptoms of his parkinson s disease.

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.