Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search

Fiction Literary

King of Egypt, King of Dreams

by (author) Gwendolyn MacEwen

Publisher
Insomniac Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2004
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894663601
    Publish Date
    Mar 2004
    List Price
    $21.95

Classroom Resources

Where to buy it

Description

The Insomniac Library is proud to reissue Gwendolyn MacEwen's second novel, more than thirty years after its original appearance in 1971. The novel bears important resemblances to MacEwen's earlier Julian the Magician. Writing to poet Al Purdy, MacEwen confessed she wanted her second novel to be "bulky, readable, and not overly mysterious." Unlike in Julian, however, here MacEwen sets out to write a deeply serious novel that also functions as entertaining historical fiction.

About the author

Gwendolyn MacEwen was born in Toronto in 1941 and died there in 1987. A writer of great talent and versatility, she wrote novels, travel books, children's books and radio drama, as well as poetry books including The Shadow-Maker (1969) and Afterworlds (1987), both of which won Governor General's Awards. She published two collections of short stories, Noman (1972) and Noman's Land (1985), which includes "The Other Country," a prize winner in the 1983 CBC Canadian Literary Awards.

Gwendolyn MacEwen's profile page