Silent Cruise
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 fiction--brilliant, stylish, humorous, and humane. 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. And in each of Taylor's tales within this book, 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 Silent Cruise is to see this poignant beauty for oneself, and, like Taylor's characters, to have one's life irresistibly changed by it.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1582432163
ISBN13:9781582432168
Release Date:October 2002
Publisher:Catapult
Length:416 Pages
Weight:0.97 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.1" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
An evocative collection of stories.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
After reading "Stanley Park", I checked to see what else this author might have written and read this collection of short stories.This collection really showcases Tim Taylor's talents. All the stories are tightly written and very evocative. His writing style is very detailed and immerses you into the environment he's set the story in.The tales in the collection show elements he later used Stanley Park, and the novella at the end of the collection show the same fine attention to detail.There isn't a bad story in the lot - a solid 4 star rating.
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