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High Water Chants

by (author) Trevor Ferguson

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Initial publish date
Apr 1997
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780006480792
    Publish Date
    Apr 1997
    List Price
    $20.00

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Description

When High Water Chants was first published in 1977, The Globeand Mail praised it as "... a tour de force by a writer of promise . . " Since then Trevor Ferguson has established himself as a gifted novelist, a writer of wild, poetic stories, often darkly funny, and rich in meaning and myth. With every book his reputation and audience grows. The time is right, then, for a reissue of Trevor Ferguson's debut novel. High Water Chants, a fiercely exhilarating story about the nature of guilt, innocence and the truths of the past, set against a brutal fight for an unspoiled coastal island. With one of the most disturbing and suspenseful chase scenes through a rugged wilderness that has ever been chronicled, High Water Chants is a passionate and primeval read.

About the author

Trevor Ferguson is the author of seven novels under his own name and another three under his pseudonym, John Farrow. One of his novels became a feature film, The Timekeeper. Four of his plays have been produced, including an off-Broadway engagement and one seen by more than 22,000 patrons in a single run. He teaches creative writing at Concordia University and lives with his wife in Hudson, Quebec.

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