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American Whiskey Bar is a remarkable faux memoir about the unmaking of afilma film which Michael Turner was commissioned to write. However whether ornot this film was ever made is debatable. And only one print is said toexist. Nevertheless American Whiskey Bar a film seen by only a handful ofpeople is well on its way to becoming a curious footnote to cinematic history.American Whiskey Bar the book is an attempt to set the record straighta story of sex violence lies ambition power paradox dreams and regret.Consider yourself warned.First published in Canada in 1997 this new edition which features a forewordby William Gibson Neuromancer Pattern Recognition is the first editionever available in the U.S.Praise for American Whiskey BarTightly packed . . . the book weaves its way in and out of various levels ofreality. . . . Theres a bright playful mind at work here.Toronto StarTurner constructs an intense intelligent and darkly humorous satire. . . .Too original to be nominated for awards.Quill QuireBrilliant . . . a dazzling dizzying multilayered blend of fact and fictionof the plausible and the preposterous of the real and the hyperreal. It isalso screamingly funny.Globe MailGlobe Mail Notable Book 1997Quill Quire Best Book of 1997Coolest Canadian Book of the Year ChaptersMichael Turner lives in Vancouver where in addition to books and screenplayshe writes art essays and edits ArsenalAdvance a literaryvisual art imprint.He has won a BC Book Prize for fiction and a Genie Award for Original Song.Recently he has collaborated with artist Stan Douglas andfilmmaker BruceLaBruce. His novel The Pornographers Poem was published this year by SoftSkull. «
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