<p>Finalist, Books in Canada/Amazon.ca First Novel Award</p> <p><i>The Beautiful Dead End</i> is a visceral crime thriller that takes the reader on an existential journey to the “other side” and almost back again. In a bizarre, shadowy interzone populated by disturbing characters, our anti-hero confronts the dark secrets of his past, and comes face to face with the consequences of having lived an unexamined life.</p> <p>Praise for <i>The Beautiful Dead End</i>:</p> <p>"Every detail of setting and behaviour and inner response contributes to the spare, mesmerizing beauty of Hutzulak's prose" (<i>The Globe and Mail</i>)</p> <p>"So startlingly fresh it is hard to believe it is a first novel. Apparently, it took Hutzulak twelve years to complete the book — a fact that underscores the precision and confidence that is woven throughout the novel. It is a brilliant debut.” (<i>Vancouver Sun</i>)</p> <p>"This is an astonishing debut, powerful, scary, sexual, existential in scope. Hutzulak is a writer to watch, and possibly to fear.” (<i>Books in Canada</i>)</p>
<p>Finalist, Books in Canada/Amazon.ca First Novel Award</p> <p><i>The Beautiful Dead End</i> is a visceral crime thriller that takes the reader on an existential journey to the “other side” and almost back again. In a bizarre, shadowy interzone populated by disturbing characters, our anti-hero confronts the dark secrets of his past, and comes face to face with the consequences of having lived an unexamined life.</p> <p>Praise for <i>The Beautiful Dead End</i>:</p> <p>"Every detail of setting and behaviour and inner response contributes to the spare, mesmerizing beauty of Hutzulak's prose" (<i>The Globe and Mail</i>)</p> <p>"So startlingly fresh it is hard to believe it is a first novel. Apparently, it took Hutzulak twelve years to complete the book — a fact that underscores the precision and confidence that is woven throughout the novel. It is a brilliant debut.” (<i>Vancouver Sun</i>)</p> <p>"This is an astonishing debut, powerful, scary, sexual, existential in scope. Hutzulak is a writer to watch, and possibly to fear.” (<i>Books in Canada</i>)</p>