 Tango on
the Main
AUTHOR: Joe Fiorito ISBN: 0921833466
Jackie of the Ritz, Montreal's chambermaid to the stars...the itinerant who reads Tennyson and drinks his daily pint of vodka on the McGill campus...the former featherweight champ who spends his mornings at the gym and his afternoons taking care of his ailing wife...these are some of the people you'll meet in Tango on the Main, a collection of Montreal Gazette columns by Joe Fiorito.
REVIEWS: The National Newspaper Award judges said of these award-winning columns: "Joe Fiorito of the Montreal Gazette regularly paints individual portraits of the larger human drama, revealing how Montrealers behave with dignity regardless of their circumstances. Fiorito is the quintessential observer, the ultimate cool outsider...his spare, at times staccato writing is a joy to read and re-read." "Montreal's polychromatic personality is not just quirky, it is two minds and many seasons, eccentric to the point of being split, at once spiritual and bawdy, elusive but in-your-face. But it is also as true to itself as a carpenter's level. And Joe Fiorito digs away at that truth as no one has in Tango on the Main, a collection of prize-winning Gazette columns that provides an indispensable vade mecum to the city in its many moods. Fiorito is that wonder of wonders, a deeply curious and perceptive reporter who is also a fine and imaginative writer. In the manner of Pablo Neruda's odes to socks and kindling wood and all the accoutrements of everyday life, his lapidary prose names things, building toward a definition of urban life." —The Montreal Gazette |
NATIONAL
NEWSPAPER AWARD WINNER 
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