Winner of 2002 Monday Magazine readers' choice M Award for Favourite Book by a Victoria Author
Point mort has been published in French by Éditions Alto (translated from the English by Rémy Charest).
The Beautiful Dead End has been optioned by True West Films (the award-winning features It’s All Gone Pete Tong, Mile Zero and the documentary on poet bp nichol, bp (pushing the boundaries), among others. The novel is being developed for motion picture release. Check back here for more details in the coming months.
An Amazon.ca BEST OF 2002 book Review on Amazon.ca
" If you think of two movies, Memento and Mulholland Drive, both released in the months prior to the novel's publication, that also turn noir convention on its head, you'll have a pretty good idea of the kind of company to be found in The Beautiful Dead End."
Review by Douglas Glover.
"Clint Hutzulak's The Beautiful Dead End is an extravagantly mysterious and wildly original first novel in the tradition of other great dead end, drug-and-booze books like Alexander Trocchi's Cain's Book and William Burrough's Junky. It's also a ghost story, a mystery novel and a love story combined. It's sentiments are death-oriented -- one senses the influence of Japanese cinema; but the orientation towards death only serves to throw the living into high relief. This is a beautifully sad, lovely book."
Review in Matrix Magazine, No. 63, Spring 2003.
"... the writing is truly noir: unsentimental, taut and spare. The moments of emotion make the reader flinch. One senses in the book a powerful sense of authorial control, and an exquisite attention to detail. Hutzulak delivers a memorable story that stays with you."
Review in Prairie Fire Review of Books, Spring 2003.
"With his exceptional eye for detail, Hutzulak immerses us in some vividly painful scenes.... makes us feel we're glimpsing an intimate secret, shadowing someone on a trip we're not sure we want to experience, even vicariously."
Review in Front and Centre, No. 6, February 2003.
"This is a remarkable, at times terrifying, novel.... (A)n achievement in Canadian literature."
Review in Books in Canada, October 2002 edition.
"This is an astonishing debut, powerful, scary, sexual, existential in scope. Hutzulak is a writer to watch, and possibly to fear."
Review in Globe and Mail, Saturday, March 23, 2002 edition. The ghost of violence past
"Hutzulak at his best creates scenes shimmering with presence, in which nothing is extraneous to his purpose. Even things such as an image seen in passing... resonate as emblems of something essential."
Review in Times-Colonist, Sunday, February 3 edition. Pulp Fiction Thrills in Poetic Language
"A taut neo-noir thriller that is simultaneously an engaging page-turner and a literary contemporary novel, showcasing a visually arresting style..... There are passages of such startling brilliance that the words seem to rise from the page.... The reader is constantly torn between the desire to savour each paragraph and the urgency to turn the page."
Review in Books in Canada, April 2002 edition.
"Do not expect redemption or inspiration or much to hope for here but do expect to be affected. And if the intelligent writing is shades of things to come, Hutzulak will be one to watch."
Review in Boulevard, July/August 2002 edition.
"What captured and held my attention was the hard reality of that afterlife, and the tough look at the way a real life can be squandered."
Review in Offbeat, July/August 2002 edition.
"Clint's writing contains such lyrical clarity that I found it hard to put his book down."
Review in RAIN Review of Books, March/April 2004.
"An intriguing, well-written tale of a lost boy, actually a manchild, who gets mixed up in a drug deal that goes bad...."
Review in Broken Pencil, Issue 19, Summer 2002.
"It's definitely a page-turner... giving up exactly the right amount from each narrative thread...."
Review in Vancouver Sun, Saturday, February 9, 2002 edition. Clint Hutzulak's Brilliant Debut
"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."
Review in Winnipeg Free Press, March 24, 2002 edition. First Novel a Taut Thriller "The Beautiful Dead End defies categorization, breaking new literary ground while still retaining the attention-holding qualities of a pulp-fiction thriller."
Review in Georgia Straight,February 14, 2002 edition. Hutzulak Reaches Dead End
"Fierce control.... A novel that is sure of its haunting, unthinking despair."
Review in Monday Magazine, March 7, 2002 edition. Truly Gritty
"An audacious debut... a startling combination of old-fashioned morality tale and incisive gutting of contemporary losers.... The gritty descriptions and dialogue have a gruesome appeal.... The Beautiful Dead End does not have a molecule of sentimentality."
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