Uproar

Jack MacLeod's first two novels established him as that rarest of talents, a writer who can entertain while also grappling with ideas and social issues. Uproar, his new novel, is the story of a marriage in free fall, a career on the skids and the bewildering era we have only just recently survived. Included among the list of zany characters is `Zinger' -- that remarkable literary creation who first made an appearance in Zinger and Me (1979), and whom the actor Don Harron has called `one of the most memorable characters in Canadian literature'.