This is the story of apocalypse: Apocalypse Nice. And I think one of the characters loses a finger at some point, too. This book is about the end of the world, and as such, it involves diet cookbooks, self-help gurus, sewer-crawling convicts, overworked editors, the economic collapse of the United States of America and the widespread tilling of alfalfa fields. In the Caveat Emptor, Ferguson describes his book: Happiness tells the story of a self-help book that causes the end of the world (as we know it). Happiness won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 2002. I am currently reading Canadian Pie as a tertiary book (because it can easily be read that way), and I have just finished reading Happiness, a novel formerly known as Generica. That just made me more curious to check out his funny stuff. There were some disturbing scenes in that book. I was impressed with it, as it opened my eyes to the world of scamming, and the visions of oil-slicked Niger Delta still torment me. Because I don’t often read funny books or travel books, 419 was the first book I read by Ferguson. In 2012, he won the Scotiabank Giller Prize with his novel 419, which is anything but humorous. Some of his best known books include How to Be A Canadian, Beauty Tip s From Moosejaw, and 419. His first three books were plucked from the slush pile: he is the author of the satirical bestseller Why I Hate Canadians, which was all but banned from export (though it can be ordered online at chapters.ca, he advises), and his other works include a nuts-and-bolts traveller's bible, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Japan, as well as a humorous expose about his experience in a misguided drunken government youth program, entitled I Was a Teenage Katima-victim! He has also written an insightful and highly scientific political analysis: Bastards & Boneheads (it was a study of our leaders).Will Ferguson is a Canadian writer who is well known for his humorous travel writing and observations about Canadian culture. 'I have absolutely no sense of direction.' Ferguson has a BFA in screenwriting from York University, Toronto. 'How I ever became a travel writer is beyond me,' he confesses. Indeed, he prides himself on having gotten utterly and hopelessly lost in more than a dozen exotic locales, including Ecuador, Peru, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Korea, and Japan. Fortunately, he managed to escape, and he has since travelled throughout Latin America and East Asia. Will Ferguson was born and raised in the former fur-trapping settlement of Fort Vermilion in the backwoods of northern Canada.
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