Sparrow Nights: A Novel (signed)

Gilmour, David

ISBN 10: 0679311122 / ISBN 13: 9780679311126

Published by Random House Canada, Toronto / Boston, New York, 2001

About this Item

First printing. Signed by author on title page. Lightly bumped on ends of spine, else fine. DJ lightly rubbed at head of spine, grouping of short shallow scratches on front near upper edge, else very good plus.

Seller Inventory # 004338

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sparrow Nights: A Novel (signed)
• Publisher: Random House Canada, Toronto / Boston, New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679311122
• ISBN 13: 9780679311126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadian
  • Fiction - General

About this title

Synopsis

An exhilarating novel of erotic and psychotic extremes from one of Canada’s best fiction writers.

Everyone would agree that Darius Halloway was the most civilized of men, a professor of French literature, a connoisseur of ideas and women and wine, a perfect guest at life’s dinner party. Darius himself would have agreed, until Emma, waifish and insatiable,walks out the door, leaving her empty clothes hangers rattling in his closet.

For a little while, it’s not so bad. He thinks she must come back, and other women find his melancholy quite compelling. But then the sparrows of insomnia start picking at the inside of his skull. Life’s little aggravating moments seem to require him to seek direct retaliation. Soon all his smoothness and cleverness is directed toward wreaking the most elaborate revenge… and getting away with it. Until the ultimate retaliation arises, and there he is, in the most damning of situations, with his nerves on fire and his heart in his throat…finally not thinking of Emma.

About the Author

David Gilmour is a novelist who’s earned the praise of literary figures as diverse as William Burroughs and Northrop Frye, and publications as diverse as The New York Times and People Magazine. His latest novel, Lost Between Houses, was a national bestseller in Canada and was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award. Gilmour was film critic for CBC-TV’s The Journal and The National for eleven years, and was the host of Gilmour on the Arts, a Gemini-award-winning arts talk show, for four years. He lives in Toronto.