Silent Cruise: A Novella and Stories,Used

Silent Cruise: A Novella and Stories,Used

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The nine pieces collected here, many of them already anthologized in Best Canadian Short Stories and other annuals, bring us a new voice in short fictionbrilliant, stylish, humorous, and humane.In Timothy Taylors Doves of Townsend, these words, found in the pages of a field guide to butterflies, throw a lifeline to a young woman struggling to stay emotionally afloat in the wake her fathers suicide. They help her to explain to herself her fathers obsession with beautiful things. They also help her to understand the true value of her fathers legacythe familys antiques business, and her own inborn helplessness before the beautiful and the real.Doves of Townsend was chosen the best short story of the year 2000 by the judges of the Journey Prize, the Canadian counterpart to the U.S. O. Henry Prize Story. And in each of Taylors tales within this book, certain mysterious things of this worldan antique watch, a mountain of radiators, a racingform, a constellationreveal their beauty to those who have eyes to see. To read Silent Cruise is to see this poignant beauty for oneself, and, like Taylors characters, to have ones life irresistibly changed by it.

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