Beside Still Waters
- Publisher
- McArthur & Company
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2009
- Category
- General
-
Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552788547
- Publish Date
- Jun 2010
- List Price
- $16.95
-
Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781552787908
- Publish Date
- Mar 2009
- List Price
- $29.95
Add it to your shelf
Where to buy it
Description
This is a passionate love story, with its roots in Toronto and its resolution in the dark heart of contemporary Africa. Adam Waters’ search for the woman he loves, who has mysteriously disappeared from their hotel room, takes him from the casinos of Puerto Rico to war-torn Gabon and a leper colony deep in the African bush. Counterpointing Adam’s quest are his memories from boyhood, and of his father, wandering jazzman Sweet Web Waters; his experiences as a war correspondent; and the girl who becomes his lover, dancer Gabrielle. Callaghan confronts the pure joy that can be in sexuality and the evil that is inherent in the nature of growth itself, by combining the excitement of an adventure story with the exuberant love of language.
About the author
BARRY CALLAGHAN founded the internationally celebrated literary quarterly, Exile, and imprint, Exile Editions, while he was a war correspondent in the Middle East and Africa in the 1970s. He is a novelist, poet and journalist and his work has been much anthologized. His numerous awards include Toronto’s One Hundred Outstanding Citizens Award, the inaugural W. Mitchell Award and the Foundation For The Advancement of Canadian Letters Award for Fiction which he was honoured with twice.
Editorial Reviews
"Beside Still Waters has all that is great of Hemingway, Conrad and Dostoevsky."
Winnipeg Free Press
"breathtaking...Callaghan's prose is pure poetry"
Globe and Mail
Other titles by
Strong Words
Poetry in a Russian and English Edition
The Exile Book of Toronto Stories
Toronto Stories
Raise You Twenty
Essays and Encounters 1964-2011, Volume Three
Irrealities, Sonnets and Laconics
A W.W.E. Ross Poetry Reader
To the Loser Go the Spoils
Essays and Anecdotes
The Selected Gwendolyn MacEwen
The Way the Angel Spreads her Wings
A Kiss is Still a Kiss
The Black Queen Stories
