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Fiction Literary

Eyemouth

by (author) Keith Harrison

Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Initial publish date
Jan 1990
Category
Literary, Historical
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780864921284
    Publish Date
    Jan 1990
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

A spellbinding Scottish novel set in Edinburgh and Upper Canada during the tumultuous years of the French revolution and the Napoleonic war, Eyemouth is a wonderful novel with a definite Scottish flair!

About the author

Born in Vancouver, Keith Harrison studied at UBC, Berkeley, and McGill writing a dissertation on Malcolm Lowry. Harrison has also written a group of stories, Crossing The Gulf (1998), which contains a piece that won the Okanagan Short Story Award, and he has edited an anthology of short fiction, Islands West: Stories from the Coast (2001). His five novels are Dead Ends (1981), a tale of two cities, Vancouver and Montréal; After Six Days (1985), about two contemporary couples; Eyemouth (1990), set mainly in Scotland during the French Revolution and its aftermath and taking the form of letters; Furry Creek (1999), a documentary fiction exploring the life, death, and art of Pat Lowther; and Elliot & Me (2006), a doubled-voiced narrative about a mother and her teenaged son set on Hornby Island. Harrison's novels have been nominated for Books in Canada Best First Novel Award, QSPELL's Hugh MacLennan Fiction Prize, and the Ethel Wilson Award. Keith Harrison teaches at Vancouver Island University, and lives on Hornby Island, British Columbia.

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Editorial Reviews

"It is thanks to Harrison's immense talent that this old world is both authentic and more real to us, that the novel remains true to history and powerful for us today."

Jay Boucher