Fiction. Spat Ryan has demons. They haunt him by day and share his drink at night. Raised in Montréal by a bagman for the Irish mob, Spat has fictionalized or ignored chunks of his life too painful to recall. A chance meeting with an old friend of his father's in a bar exposes the dark secret they've both been harboring, the secret that has shaped and defined Spat's tumultuous life. Newly divorced and out of control, his decision to tell all and release himself from the past unleashes a storm of change in both his internal and external life. SPAT THE DUMMY is a confession—raw and unrestrained, a modern day hero's journey to the Underworld and back, a novel about changing history by confronting it.

Author City: TORONTO, ON CAN

Ed Macdonald is an actor, playwright, and novelist. He is the author of the novel, SPAT THE DUMMY (2010), and the drama collection, MUTANT SEX PARTY & OTHER PLAYS (2012), both from Anvil Press. As an actor, he has appeared on various stages and in TV shows, including Trailer Park Boys, Lexx, Hatching Matching and Dispatching. He was frequently a guest on Open Book With Mary Walsh. His play Gemini opened at the 78th Street Theatre Lab and received great reviews, including a rave from The Village Voice. The play was then re-mounted by NBC for a run in their PSNBC space. MUTANT SEX PARTY, Erratica, Hot Meat and Titus Lucretius Carus have all been produced by the New York production house The Drilling Company. Titus Lucretius Carus was recently nominated for the New York Innovative Theatre Award. Born and raised on Cape Breton Island, Ed now lives in Toronto.

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