Buy this book on-line Garner, Hugh : The Silence on the ShoreMcClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1962
Hugh Garner's best, most ambitious novel. Truly, in the person of Grace Hill, the landlady of the Toronto rooming house where most of the book's events take place, Garner has created a fictional character never to be forgotten. Grace is a middle-aged snoop and an overweight nudist whose sexual release comes from watching wrestling matches at a hockey arena that is a thinly disguised Maple Leaf Gardens. Around Grace orbit her various boarders: alcoholic Gordon Lightfoot; Walter Fowler, an aspiring writer whose marriage has just broken up; Aline Garfield, a fundamentalist Christian grappling with various urges and torments; a Polish refugee woman; and a colourful cast of others whose lives intersect in drama that arises from arbitrary or coincidental encounters.Nice printed cloth cover in yellow and black designed by Frank Newfeld .. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Decorative Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Garner, Hugh : The Silence on the Shore. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including antiquarian books, used books, fine bindings, libri antichi and collectables. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |