Books: Fordmates by Ivo Moravec Ivo Moravec worked on the line at Ford’s St. Thomas Assembly Plant for twenty-one years, and has since become a unique voice in Canadian literature. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he began his literary career, and wrote song lyrics, television scripts, a theater play and children stories, Ivo defected to Austria in 1983, and then emigrated to Canada. Ivo retired from Ford in 2007.
production of Ford Crown Victorias and Mercury Grand Marquises but also of daydreams and paycheques, of philosophers and drug addicts, and of broken families and best mates,” explains Ivo. “Many of the stories revel in some unexpected small victory extracted from the daily routine, from the giddy foolishness of gloveball fights and improbable practical jokes to the terse satisfaction of outsmarting overbearing foremen.” Wrote Stan Dragland (author, poet and professor emeritus at Western University): “Fordmates is a book of hilariously subversive interconnected stories set in a particular Ford assembly plant. In this wonderful book you are shown, from start to finish, how a car is put together. You feel the mental and physical toll on the workers who assemble it. You experience the tension between human freedom and restraint, human creativity and mindless automation, that is life on the assembly line. A sense of humour, empathy, imagination and intelligence are all fully engaged in this encounter with a Ford plant plumb full of fascinating characters.” Read Fordmates to learn... what happens when assembly line meets opera, whether a robot can go insane, if the production line can help a worker to survive the attack of a gold-digger, how to wrestle with a Chronomeister and how to hunt for a rattlesnake on the loose in the plant! Fordmates was published by The Porcupine’s Quill, September 2023. It is available at the Oxford Book Store at 262 Picadilly St., in London, Ontario and on Amazon and other online retailers and at The Porcupine’s Quill (www.porcupinesquill.ca). Look also for Ivo’s book Tightrope Passage / Along the Refugee Route to Canada ; McClelland & Stewart, ISBN 0-7710-6500-0, published April 12, 1997, among others. THE TURKEY SHOPPE
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