Bob's Write from the Start: A Horse Walked Into A Bar

Bob's Write from the Start

Bob’s Write from the Start, a blog sharing the roller coaster ride of this renewing writer’s feelings and actual experiences, began March 2017. That January, I began with a two-sentence contribution to a local Writing Group. I am now a Guest Columnist for a local paper and have contributed to small and online magazines. My comments for new and renewing writers? Start by starting. Join a writing group. You are unique but not alone. Once you start work, you will not be in Kansas anymore.

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

A Horse Walked Into A Bar

I love this book. I have no qualifications to judge "best" but if someone asked me my "favourite" contemporary novel, I would say A Horse Walked Into A Bar by Author David Grossman and Translator Jessica Cohen.

According to Wikipedia, it won the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. Of more relevance to me is this comment: The judges said they had been "bowled over by Grossman's willingness to take emotional as well as stylistic risks".

One of my favourites from the book is: "Every one of them was like a rough draft of an actual human being. . . Beleive me, out of ten of them you could put together maybe one normal person."

Don't you just want to roll around in that prose?

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Name: Bob's Write From The Start

Location: Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

Born, raised and living in Sarnia, Ontario, Bob Boulton began writing poetry, short stories and humorous articles for his high school newspaper in the period just after dinosaurs roamed the earth. His article on the mysteries of the Chess Club was particularly well-received. Bob’s excruciatingly naive teenage sonnet was published with positive mention in the high school yearbook. In University he wrote pretty much indecipherable essays on Existentialism and Phenomenology. Then, early in his working career, Bob also wrote short feature articles in the now-defunct (not his fault) Weston York Times. For this, he was paid $5.00 per article, which didn’t quite cover his transportation and parking costs. Then after a short break of thirty-five or forty years as an executive and leadership coach, Bob reactivated his passion for writing. The alternatives he considered were learning to yodel or trying to play the bagpipes. Bob’s loving and supportive family voted enthusiastically, and quickly, for writing.