David Watmough's 2-Book Bundle (eBook)

Myself Through Others / The Moor is Dark Beneath the Moon

David Watmough (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
384 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-4074-7 (ISBN)

Infos

David Watmough, often spoken of as Canada's senior gay male fiction writer, has committed his memories to paper in Myself Through Others. Watmough is well-known for his fiction featuring gay "e;everyman"e; Davey Bryant, and the novel The Moor is Dark Beneath the Moon is bundled together in this special 2-book collection.Includes:The Moor is Dark Beneath the MoonDavey Bryant returns to England for the funeral of a mysterious relative and lands in an inheritance squabble that threatens to escalate into something far worse.Myself Through Others: MemoirsGiven the autobiographical nature of his fiction, the prolific raconteur has opted for a novel approach to his own life by telling his story through his encounters with the numerous people he has met, befriended, loved, and jousted with over the years. And what a parade of personalities it is! Watmough serves up incisive, trenchant, often witty profiles of writers W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Stephen Spender, Raymond Chandler, Tennessee Williams, Carol Shields, Margaret Laurence, Jane Rule, and Wallace Stegner; artists Bill Reid and Jack Shadbolt; politicians and celebrities Pierre Trudeau, Clement Atlee, and Eleanor Roosevelt; Hollywood actress Jean Arthur; and a host of others.

Autor

David Watmough is the author of a cycle of fictions that features gay "everyman" Davey Bryant, who has appeared in twelve volumes, including No More into the Garden (1978), The Year of Fears (1987), and Hunting with Diana (1996). Watmough is also a playwright, short-story writer, critic, broadcaster, and the author of nine other books. His novel Thy Mother's Glass was nominated in 2002 for CBC's Canada Reads. He lives in Vancouver.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.4.2017
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-4074-2 / 1459740742
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-4074-7 / 9781459740747