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Dinner along the Amazon

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Dinner along the Amazon( )
Author: Findley, Timothy
ISBN:978-0-7352-3463-5
Publication Date:Nov 2017
Publisher:Penguin Canada
Imprint:Penguin Canada
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

In his first work of short fiction, Timothy Findley weaves an experimental mix of short story and stage scenes, culminating in this collection of twelve vignettes that each investigate the dynamics of relationships in all their various forms. It begins with "Lemonade," as a young boy watches mother's alcoholism send her into a spiralling breakdown, mentally and physically. And then it moves, to another young boy receiving news of his father's intent to join the...
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Pages:256
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.2 x 8 x 0.6 Inches
Book Weight:0.42 Pounds
Author Biography
Findley, Timothy (Author)
Timothy Findley was born in 1930. A native of Toronto, Canada, novelist and playwright Timothy Findley initially embarked upon an acting career. Findley worked for the Canadian Stratford Festival and later, after study at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, he toured Britain, Europe, and the United States as a contract player. While performing in The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder, Findley was encouraged by the playwright to write fiction.

Influenced by film techniques, Findley's first novel, The Last of the Crazy People (1967) is a penetrating look at a family of "emotional cripples" from a child's perspective. With his character Hooker, Findley captures the irrational logic of a child's mind without treating childhood sentimentally.The Butterfly Plague followed in 1969. The Wars (1978), Findley's most successful novel, has been translated into numerous languages and was made into a film. The Wars uses the device of a story-within-a-story to illustrate how a personality transcends elemental forces even while being destroyed by them. In 1981 Famous Last Words was published. This fictionalization of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley by Ezra Pound, a work that was already a "fictional fact," examines fascism. In Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984),

Findley rewrites the story of Noah's Ark by giving voices to women, children, workers, animals, and folklore creatures, all of whom question Noah's authority. The novel turns into a parable that seems to challenge imperialism, eugenics, fascism, and any other force that endangers human survival. Again repeating an earlier text, Findley turns to Thomas Mann's Death in Venice to write The Telling of Lies (1986). This novel draws parallels between World War II atrocities and contemporary North America, which Findley sees as a metaphoric concentration camp.

Findley died on June 20, 2002 in Provence, France

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