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Here is the powerful, haunting "Lemonade,"where a young boy's world is shattered by his mother's self-destruction, and eleven other stories, including "Dinner along the Amazon,"an unusual journey into the complexities of contemporary relationships.
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Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada's most compelling and best-loved writers. He is the author of The Wars, which won the Governor General's Award and established him as one of Canada's leading writers, as well as Pilgrim and The Piano Man's Daughter, both finalists for The Giller Prize. His other novels, Headhunter, The Telling of Lies, The Last of the Crazy People, The Butterfly Plague, Famous Last Words, Not Wanted on the Voyage, and Spadework; his novella, You Went Away; and his short fiction, Dinner Along the Amazon, Stones, and Dust to Dust, have won numerous awards and are well loved both in Canada and internationally.
Elizabeth Rex won the Governor General's Award for Drama and The Stillborn Lover won a Chalmers Award. His works of non-fiction include Inside Memory and From Stone Orchard.
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Elizabeth Rex won the Governor General's Award for Drama and The Stillborn Lover won a Chalmers Award. His works of non-fiction include Inside Memory and From Stone Orchard.
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Canadian novelist Findley (The Wars, Famous Last Words) here offers an impressive if uneven collection of 12 short stories. The best of the lot are written in strong, straightforward prose. Perhaps the most affecting is "Lemonade," which opens the volume and describes how a sensitive eight-year-old boy deals with his alcoholic mother's gradual physical and mental disintegration. Also effective is "War," a WW II story of a boy's reaction to the news that his father is joining the army; so is "SometimeLaterNot Now," in which the narrator tells of the sad life of a woman whom he has loved since childhood. The book's weaker entries are Findley's more experimental stories, including the apocalyptic "What Mrs. Felton Knew" and several "prose scenes" from plays. November
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- PublisherPenguin Canada
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0140073043
- ISBN 13 9780140073041
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