Noah's Turn

Ken Finkleman

Aug 2010 · HarperCollins Canada

About this ebook

Noah’s Turn is the darkly humorous story of Noah Douglas, a failed television writer who is intensely jealous of a more successful friend. Jobless, wifeless, Noah drifts through the cold winter, alternately drinking, visiting an elderly aunt whom he hopes will die and leave him money, and sleeping with whomever will have him. But it isn’t until Noah finds himself at a pivotal moment of envy that he crosses the line between humanity and depravity and murders his successful friend with a machete. Noah must deal with the mental anguish and moral dilemmas—and surprising lack of remorse—over the murder, for which he seems not to be a suspect.

Well-paced, funny, with Finkleman’s trademark sharp observations on vanity and hubris, Noah’s Turn is a short masterpiece.

About the author

Ken Finkleman is a Canadian television and film writer, producer and actor. He is best known as the writer, creator and producer of the CBC Television series The Newsroom (also aired on PBS), in which he starred as television news producer George Findlay for three seasons. He also produced Married Life (Comedy Central, Atlantis Films), Foolish Heart (CBC), Foreign Objects (CBC), More Tears (CBC) and At The Hotel (CBC), and in the 1980s wrote the screenplays for a number of Hollywood films. He is currently at work on a new television series that will air on The Movie Network in Fall 2010.