A Fine Ending was reviewed in last Sunday’s Halifax Daily News (click to see review). The paper also ran an interview with Louis Rastelli (available here). There is a longer version of this interview available on the journalist’s personal blog, right here.
From the review:
“Louis Rastelli’s debut novel, A Fine Ending, is a captivating tale of […]
A very positive review in the Montreal Gazette is now online. Some excerpts:
“Although Louis Rastelli’s A Fine Ending is written in a smooth, flowing style reminiscent of J.D. Salinger or Jacques Poulin, that doesn’t fully explain the novel’s appeal, which is voyeuristic as well as literary This roman à clef pulls back the curtain on […]
Here is an interview with Louis Rastelli that aired on CKUT Radio’s Friday Morning After show on November 23, 2007. Click on the file to listen; right-click and select “save as” to save each part as an MP3 file.
CKUT Interview Pt. 1, Nov. 23, 2007
CKUT Interview Pt. 2, Nov. 23, 2007
CKUT Interview Pt. 3, Nov. […]
Here’s a photo from the New Year’s 2000 fireworks on Mont-Royal, as seen from Jeanne-Mance park, just off Esplanade. Click on the image to see it full size, and let me know if you have any photos of that evening yourself! It would be fun to post more of them here… (and pardon the weird […]
Another review of A Fine Ending has just come out, in Montreal’s free weekly, Hour.
“… an untroubled immortalization of a bygone era in the Montreal underground. There is something undeniably compelling in the openness and innocence of the telling, in the largely non-subjective subjectivity. We feel safe in his story, and therein lies the draw […]
A Fine Ending Chapter 5
Chapter 5 of A Fine Ending, as read by Louis Rastelli. Simply click on the link to listen to the reading; right-click and select “save as” to download it as an MP3 file.
A Fine Ending, as well as this reading, is copyright 2007 by Louis Rastelli. The reading was recorded in […]
Expozine was a huge success! As one of the organizers since its inception in 2002, Louis Rastelli was amazed at how the event’s growth just doesn’t stop from one year to the next. It’s hard to imagine how far it can go, what with endless demands for more space, and the 280 participating small presses, […]
Louis Rastelli will be signing copies of his novel, A Fine Ending, at Expozine 2007 in Montreal on Saturday, November 24 and Sunday, November 25, 2007, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 5035 St-Dominique (Église Saint-Enfant Jésus, between St-Joseph and Laurier, near Laurier Métro) MAP. Free admission.
In other news, he is interviewed in the […]
I figured I would start with a couple of photos of the cats featured in the book! (The humans in the book are characters only loosely based on real people; however, the cats had no issues with being in the book, given how much they love attention, so I used their real names!)
Here’s Bindy sitting […]
This is another deleted passage from the early drafts of A Fine Ending, the first of several which delve deeper into the narrator’s day job as well as the francophone side of Montreal. I would have liked to work into the book more about the day job, the francophone side of the city, and the […]