Silent Cruise
A Novella and Stories
by Timothy Taylor
Book #319 - Price US$
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BOOK DESCRIPTION FROM BACK COVER:
Prize-winning short fiction from the best-selling young
writer that "everyone in the Canadian literary community today is talking
about." --Globe and Mail</I>. "The purpose of butterflies will not be found
in the few flowers they may inadvertently pollinate. Nor in the number of
parasitic wasps they may support...Their purpose is their beauty and the
beauty they bring into the lives of those of us who have paused long enough
from the cares of the world to listen to their fascinating story."
In Timothy Taylor's "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 father's
suicide. They help her to explain to herself her father's obsession with
beautiful things. They also help her to understand the true value of her
father's legacy--the family's 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. It and the eight other pieces collected
here, many of them already anthologized in Best Canadian Short Stories and
other annuals, bring us a new voice in short fiction --brilliant, stylish,
humorous, and humane. In each of Taylor's tales, certain mysterious things
of this world--an antique watch, a mountain of radiators, a racing-form, a
constellation--reveal their beauty to those who have eyes to see. To read
<I>Silent Cruise</I> is to see this poignant beauty for oneself, and, like
Taylor's characters, to have one's life irresistibly changed by it.
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