Lawrence Hill
Mahatma Grafton is a disillusioned university graduate burdened with a famous name, and suffering from the curse of his generation â€” a total lack of interest in the state of the world. The son of a retired railway porter from Winnipeg, he returns home for a job as a reporter with The Winnipeg Herald. Soon Mahatma is scoping local stories of murder and mayhem, breaking a promise to himself to avoid writing victim stories.,As Mahatma is unexpectedly drawn into the inflammatory issue of French-language rights in Manitoba, with all its racial side-channels, he is surprised to find that he has a social conscience. Combating his bossâ€™s flair for weaving hysteria into his stories, Mahatma learns that to stay afloat he must remain true to himself.,Populated with colourful characters â€” including an unlikely welfare crusader, a burned-out fellow reporter, a French-language-rights activist, and a visiting journalist from Cameroon â€” Some Great Thing is a fascinating portrait of a major urban newspaper and a deeply perceptive story of one manâ€™s coming of age.
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Some Great Thing