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Beside Still Waters

by (author) Barry Callaghan

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

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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.

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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

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