Fawn Parker

Dumb-Show Fawn Parker

A satirical campus novel, ?Dumb-Show?shrewdly confronts the cultural politics of masculinity through a narrative that twists the structure of?Henry IV. A controversial Canadian professor of political science at a Toronto?university rises to power when his political views divide the student body.

Two siblings, one a student at the university, develop isolated personal relationships with the professor, and find themselves spiralling to infamy alongside him. Parker's second novel shadows the rise and fall of a corrupt king, observes a young and lazy boy's attempt to make a name for himself, and, tearing a hole in the hyper-masculine power narrative, interrogates a woman's internal search to power. Expanding from the brutal introspection first seen in?Parker's Set-Point, ?Dumb-Show takes brilliant aim