· The Los Angeles Times "The Snow Whale" is a funny debut novel. John Minichillo uses our often cartoonish understanding of other cultures to examine the strange sparks that fly when seemingly different cultures (mall-trawling consumers, Spike Lee-wannabe ghetto boys, cubicle lifers in large corporations, Inuit whalers, Eskimo divorcees) inhabit the same neighborhood, whaling boat, igloo or, Author: John Minichillo. · Frederick Barthelme, author of 16 books including Elroy Nights, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist The Snow Whale, John Minichillo's quirky, comic first novel, is an American original. The ingenious way in which the story raises levels of social issues like identity politics and environmental concern, and seamlessly integrates them with an iconic literary text is a wonder and a delight/5(9). · The Snow Whale by John Minichillo, which is published by local Maryland publisher Atticus Books, is a satire of Moby Dick by Herman Melville to a certain extent. The debut novel centers on the life-changing decision of John Jacobs, a zombified office worker selling desk doodles to corporations via telephone, to find out his ancestry through a cheek-swab DNA test.
About John Minichillo. John Minichillo's novel, The First Woman on Mars is forthcoming from Spaceboy Books. His novel, The Snow Whale, was an Independent Publishers Book Awards regional gold medalist for the West-Pacific and an Orion Magazine Book Prize notable. The winner of The Snow Whale by John Minichillo during BBAW was Amy of The House of Seven Tails. The winner of When She Woke by Hillary Jordan during BBAW was Lauren of Shooting Stars Mag. Congrats to all of you and I hope you enjoy the books. Filed Under: winners Tagged With. John Minichillo's novel, The Snow Whale, a contemporary retelling of Moby-Dick, was a regional gold medalist in the Independent Book Publisher Awards for the West-Pacific, an Orion Book Prize notable, and a Hey Small Press! best of A collection of his short fiction was a finalist in the University of West Alabama Press's Tartt.
The Snow Whale by John Minichillo was sent to me for review by Atticus Books. It will be published on J. About the Book: John Jacobs is stuck in a dead end job, selling corporate knickknacks out of a cubicle. In John Minichillo’s debut novel, The Snow Whale, John Jacobs spends his days selling office novelties called “desk doodles” and bemoaning the complacency of his mediocre life. Then, out of boredom-induced curiosity, Jacobs takes a mail-order DNA test and discovers that he is 37 percent Inuit. Frederick Barthelme, author of 16 books including Elroy Nights, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist The Snow Whale, John Minichillo's quirky, comic first novel, is an American original. The ingenious way in which the story raises levels of social issues like identity politics and environmental concern, and seamlessly integrates them with an iconic literary text is a wonder and a delight.
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