Layton, Irving

Now-elderly Montreal poet, blowhard and self-declared Nobel Prize candidate with a perpetually over-eager “cowled friar” no Canadian woman has ever quite been willing to go on record as having actually seen. Until Layton’s son David spent an entire book slagging him in unmistakably Laytonesque sentences, it wasn’t clear that he had one at all.

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