Time of the Kingfishers
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1994
- Category
- Gay
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551520087
- Publish Date
- Oct 1994
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
A rich, elegiac novel about family, friendship, and loyalty featuring Watmough's protagonist Davey Bryant. As the compassionate and witty narrator, Davey leads the reader through various upheavals in the life he shares with Ken, his companion, and their friends. At the heart of their journeys is Davey's own plaintive recollections of a past we all hope to recapture.
About the author
David Watmough is the author of a cycle of fictions that features gay "everyman" Davey Bryant, who has appeared in twelve volumes, including No More into the Garden (1978), Unruly Skeletons (1982), The Year of Fears (1987), The Time of Kingfishers (1994), and Hunting With Diana (1996). Watmough is also a playwright, short-story writer, critic, broadcaster, and the author of nine other books. His novel Thy Mother's Glass (1992) was nominated in 2002 for CBC's Canada Reads. He lives in Vancouver.