Canada Reads King Leary - McNally Robinson Booksellers

Canada Reads King Leary
by david pensato - Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:47pm

King Leary, by Paul Quarrington has won the honour of this year's CBC Canada Reads.

Championed by Dave Bidini, the book was up against Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson, From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant, Icefields by Thomas Wharton, and Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley

King Leary, which also won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 1988, is the seventh winner of the now honoured title of Canada Reads.

You can watch the final moments of the radio broadcast here and a video tribute to the book here.

Previous Winners:

Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

Rockbound by Frank Parker Day

The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Next Episode by Hubert Aquin

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

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