A bomb in a parachute: how to keep dreaming on the road to destruction.(The Parachute)(Book review)

From: Literary Review of Canada | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: Dunne, David | Copyright information

The Parachute Sinclair Dumontais, translated by Patricia Claxton Key Porter 138 pages, softcover ISBN 1552637344

[Editor's Note: A book written pseudonymously by a Quebec writer has arrived in our offices. It purports to be a monologue, delivered by a brilliant, cynical and successful marketing consultant who has been persuaded to leave his Greek island to address the board and management of a major multinational shoe-manufacturing concern.

The shoe company's ...

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