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Fiction Crime

Telling of Lies

by (author) Timothy Findley

foreword by Charles Foran

Publisher
Penguin Group Canada
Initial publish date
Jul 2008
Category
Crime, Classics, Literary
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780670812066
    Publish Date
    Oct 1987
    List Price
    $27.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780143055044
    Publish Date
    Jul 2008
    List Price
    $19.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780140241150
    Publish Date
    Feb 1996
    List Price
    $17.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780140093063
    Publish Date
    Oct 1986
    List Price
    $7.99

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Introduction by Charles Foran

The body of wealthy Calder Maddox is found on the beach, the stately Aurora Sands Hotel supplies the suspects, and amateur sleuth and photographer Nessa Van Horne investigates a grisly murder and man's inhumanity to man.

About the authors

Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada's most compelling and best-loved writers. He is the author of The Wars, which won the Governor General's Award and established him as one of Canada's leading writers, as well as Pilgrim and The Piano Man's Daughter, both finalists for The Giller Prize. His other novels, Headhunter, The Telling Of Lies, The Last Of The Crazy People, The Butterfly Plague, Famous Last Words, Not Wanted On The Voyage, and Spadework; his novella, You Went Away; and his short fiction, Dinner Along The Amazon, Stones, and Dust To Dust, have won numerous awards and are well loved both in Canada and internationally.

Elizabeth Rex won the Governor General's Award for Drama and The Stillborn Lover won a Chalmers Award. His works of non-fiction include Inside Memory and From Stone Orchard.

Timothy Findley was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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CHARLES FORAN is an award-winning journalist and author of ten books, including four previous novels. His biography Mordecai: The Life and Times won the Charles Taylor Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Literary Nonfiction and the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award. He holds degrees from the University of Toronto and University College, Dublin. He lives in Toronto.

WEB: CHARLESFORAN.COM

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