{"product_id":"my-winnipeg-9781552452110","title":"My Winnipeg","description":"\u003cp\u003eA herd of horses frozen in a river. A bargain bridge. S ances. Golden Boy pageants. A demolished hockey arena. St. Mary's Academy for Girls. Spanky the Guide Dog through Time. An epidemic of sleepwalking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the Winnipeg of Guy Maddin, the world's foremost \u003ci\u003ecin aste planant\u003c\/i\u003e, and it's not the Winnipeg you'll find in tourist brochures. When the iconoclastic auteur of \u003ci\u003eThe Saddest Music in the World\u003c\/i\u003e decided to tackle the subject of his hometown, it could only have become a 'docu-fantasia, ' a melange of personal history, civic tragedy and mystical hypothesizing. The result is wildly delirious, deeply personal and deliciously entertaining.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerewith, venture deeper into the mind of Maddin with the text of his narration, wantonly annotated with an avalanche of marginal digressions, stills, outtakes, family photos, emails, essays, deoculations, animations, notebook pages and collages. There's even an X-ray of Spanky the pug and an in-depth interview with Michael Ondaatje.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuy Maddin is a Winnipeg-based filmmaker and writer. His feature films include \u003ci\u003eTales from the Gimli Hospital, Archangel, Careful, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, Cowards Bend the Knee\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Saddest Music in the World\u003c\/i\u003e. His films have won numerous prizes, and he is the youngest recipient of the Telluride Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50356217643282,"sku":"9781552452110","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6790f55e-7911-4237-bfa1-40aa7d0d74c1.jpg?v=1728307670","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-winnipeg-9781552452110","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}