The Perfect Order of Things

ReviewA Globe and Mail Top 100 Books for 2011“...a masterpiece of irony, subversive humour and astonishing self-mockery.... Gilmour handles his material with style and finesse, with a delicious sense of irony and with a creative jouissance. Here is a novel that gleams with intelligence,humour and wickedly precise observation.” (Globe and Mail )“...The Perfect Order of Things is so easily read, it adds a level of accessibility to the genre the others can’t match.” (Toronto Star )“...Gilmour’s sensitive and cultivated nurturing of narrative provides a pleasure beyond words.” (Edmonton Journal ) About the AuthorDavid Gilmour is a novelist who has earned critical praise from literary figures as diverse as William Burroughs and Northrop Frye, and from publications as different as the New York Times to People magazine. The author of six novels, he also hosted the award-winning Gilmour on the Arts. In 2005, his novel A Perfect Night to Go to China won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. His next book, The Film Club, was a finalist for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize. It became an international bestseller, and has sold over 200,000 copies in Germany and over 100,000 copies in Brazil. He lives in Toronto with his wife.