The Fiddler Is a Good Woman

by Geoff Berner

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Pub Date Nov 07 2017 | Archive Date Sep 30 2017

Dundurn | Dundurn Press

General Fiction (Adult) | Literary Fiction

Description

A biography that doesn’t quite exist, about a violinist who can’t be found, as told by people who don’t agree on much.

Novelist Geoff Berner has been tasked with writing a biography of DD, a mysterious, charismatic, chimerical musician who has, it seems, dropped off the face of the earth. In the course of his search for DD, Berner interviews her friends, ex-bandmates, ex-lovers, and others. They paint such variable portraits of her that each successive attempt to describe her casts doubt on the previous testimony. As his project is taken over by the lively, infuriating, entertaining tales, a wounded, gifted, and complex DD starts to emerge from all the eyewitness accounts and swear-to-God true stories.

Who is DD? Where did she go? And why didn’t that book get written? Travel through a world of knockabout musicians and chancers, on the trail of an inimitable artist who truly lives in the moment, for better or worse.

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A Note From the Publisher

Geoff Berner is the author of Festival Man and the graphic novel We Are Going To Bremen To Be Musicians. A singer-songwriter and accordion player, he has released six albums and toured in seventeen countries. He lives in Vancouver.

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Advance Praise

One of the most heartfelt lies I have ever read. Berner’s story of a punk-rock fiddler is by turns beguiling, unruly, and sad — an improbable oral history for an imaginary Canadian music scene. Sean Michaels, author of Us Conductors, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize
Berner’s unlikely, implausible sequel to Festival Man is somehow real — insofar as it appears to exist. It’s right here in front of you after all: full of desperate truth-tellers, truth-seekers in all their ragged glory, and the honest lies of oracles who’ve been banished to the edges of life. Whether or not it is true, however, is a whole other thing entirely. All I know for certain is The Fiddler is a Good Woman, and this is a wonderful book. Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall, author of Down To This

One of the most heartfelt lies I have ever read. Berner’s story of a punk-rock fiddler is by turns beguiling, unruly, and sad — an improbable oral history for an imaginary Canadian music scene...

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