The Dilettantes

By Michael Hingston

The Peak: a university student newspaper with a hard-hitting mix of inflammatory editorials, hastily thrown-together comics and reviews, and a news section run the only way self-taught journalists know how--sloppily.

Alex and Tracy are two of The Peak's editors, staring down graduation and struggling to keep the paper relevant to an increasingly indifferent student body. But trouble looms large when a big-money free daily comes to the west-coast campus, threatening to swallow what remains of their readership whole.

It'll take the scoop of a lifetime to save their beloved campus rag. An expos about the mysterious filmed-on-campus viral video? Some good old-fashioned libel? Or what about that fallen Hollywood star, the one who's just announced he's returning to Simon Fraser University to finish his degree?

With savage wit, intoxicating energy, and a fine-tuned ear for the absurd, Michael Hingston drags the campus novel, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554811821
• ISBN13: 9781554811823
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Freehand Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"